Meẕudat Yeẖi‘am
Meẕudat Yeẖi‘am is an archaeological site in Northern District, Israel. Meẕudat Yeẖi‘am is situated nearby to the protected area Yehiam Fortress National Park, as well as near the village Ga’aton.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Yehiam Fortress National Park and Yehi’am Fortress.
Yehiam Fortress National Park
Protected area
Yehi'am Fortress National Park is an Israeli national park in western Upper Galilee on the grounds of Kibbutz Yehi'am, whose main attractions are the ruins of a hilltop castle in Jiddin.
Yehi’am Fortress
Castle
Khirbat Jiddin, known in the Kingdom of Jerusalem as Judin, was an Ottoman fortress in the western Upper Galilee, originally built by the Teutonic Order after 1220 as a crusader castle, 16 km northeast of the city of Acre, which at the time was the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yehiam and Ga’aton.
Yehiam
Village
Yehiam is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located at the western Upper Galilee, eight miles east of the coastal town of Nahariya and 14 miles south-east of the border with Lebanon it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council.
Ga’aton
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Ga'aton is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the western Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 740.
Ein Ya’akov
Village
Photo: Kippi70, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ein Ya'akov is a moshav in northern Israel. Located near Ma'alot-Tarshiha, it falls under the jurisdiction of Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 1,257.
Meẕudat Yeẖi‘am
- Type: Archaeological site
- Also known as: “Judin”, “Metsudat Gadin”, “Meẕudat Gadin”, “Mezudat Yehi`am”, and “Qalat Djeddine”
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Northern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.99436° or 32° 59′ 40″ northLongitude
35.22292° or 35° 13′ 23″ eastElevation
394 metres (1,293 feet)Open location code
8G4QX6VF+P5GeoNames ID
294223
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In Other Languages
“Meẕudat Yeẖi‘am” goes by many names.
- Hebrew: “Meẕudat Yeẖi‘am”
- Hebrew: “מצודת גדין”
- Hebrew: “מצודת יחיעם”
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