Alexandrium
Alexandreion, or Alexandrium, called Sartaba in the Mishna and Talmud and Qarn Sartaba in Arabic, was an ancient hilltop fortress constructed by the Hasmoneans between Scythopolis and Jerusalem on a pointy barren hill towering over the Jordan Valley from the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: remains of Herod the Great’s fortress in the Jordan Valley
- Also known as: “Alexandreion”, “Qarn Ṣarṭaba”, “Qarn Sartabah”, “Qarn Şarţabah”, “Qarn Şarţabeh”, and “Sartaba”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Masua and Yafit.
Masua
Village
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Masua, also transliterated as Massu'a, is an Israeli settlement organized as a moshav shitufi in the West Bank. Located in the Jordan Valley, with an area of 6,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council. Masua is situated 3½ km northeast of Alexandrium.
Yafit
Village
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Yafit is an Israeli settlement organized as a moshav shitufi in the West Bank. Located in the Jordan Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council. Yafit is situated 3½ km south of Alexandrium.
Petza’el
Village
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Petza'el is a moshav and Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located in the center of the Jordan Valley, 34.5 kilometers from the Green line, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council. Petza’el is situated 6 km south of Alexandrium.
Alexandrium
- Categories: fortress, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Alexandrium” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قرن سرطبة”
- Catalan: “Alexandrium”
- Dutch: “Alexandrium”
- French: “Alexandrion”
- German: “Alexandreion”
- Greek: “Αλεξάνδρειον”
- Hebrew: “סרטבה”
- Italian: “Alexandreion”
- Japanese: “アレクサンドレイオン”
- Persian: “الکساندریوم”
- Polish: “Aleksandrejon”
- Portuguese: “Alexândrio”
- Russian: “Александрион”
- Russian: “Сартаба”
- Swahili: “Alexandrium”
- Ukrainian: “Александріон”
- Ukrainian: “Сартаба”
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