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Herodium
Herodium, Herodion, Jabal al-Fraidees, is a truncated cone-shaped hill, located south of Jerusalem and southeast of Bethlehem, in West Bank. Herod the Great built a fortress, a palace, and a small town in Herodium, between 23 and 15 BC, and is believed to have been buried there.
The site is one of the elements included in the UNESCO Tentative List for World Heritage designation, El-Bariyah, wilderness with monasteries.by Asaf T, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commonsby upyernoz, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commonsby Deror Avi, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsElevation: 726 m
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UNESCO Tentative List
Date of Submission
2012
1st Century BC
Roman
Roman
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