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    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.
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    Elevation: 726 m

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    Herodium


    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    2012

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    1st Century BC


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    Roman

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    Roman Monuments


     

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