Dan
Dan, and older name Laish, is an ancient city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, described as the northernmost city of the Kingdom of Israel, and belonging to the tribe of Dan, its namesake.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient city in northern Israel
- Also known as: “Laish”, “Leshem”, “Mound of the Judge”, “Tel el Qady”, and “Tell el Qadi”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Beit Ussishkin Museum and Banias.
Beit Ussishkin Museum
Museum
Photo: ענבלוי, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beit Ussishkin Museum is situated 790 metres south of Dan.
Banias
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Banias, also spelled Banyas, is a site in the Golan Heights near a natural spring, once associated with the Greek god Pan. It had been inhabited for 2,000 years, until its Syrian population fled and their homes were destroyed by Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War. Banias is situated 3½ km east of Dan.
Tel Azaziat
Peak
Photo: Chaver83, Public domain.
Tel Azaziat is a hill in the foothills of the Golan Heights in northern Israel, 330 m above sea level, 1.5 km east of moshav She'ar Yashuv, 1.5 km south east of kibbutz Dan and 2 km west of Tel Faher. Tel Azaziat is situated 3 km southeast of Dan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dan and Snir.
Dan
Village
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Dan is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the north of the Hula Valley, at the foot of Mount Hermon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. As of 2023 it had a population of 859.
Snir
Village
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Snir is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Hula Valley near Kiryat Shmona, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 749.
Dafna
Village
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Dafna is a kibbutz in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel. Located seven kilometres east of Kiryat Shmona and surrounded by three streams of the Dan River, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council.
Dan
- Categories: tell, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Quneitra Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Dan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tel Dan”
- Arabic: “تل القاضي”
- Arabic: “دان”
- Azerbaijani: “Dan (antik şəhər)”
- Azerbaijani: “Dan”
- Bulgarian: “Дан”
- Catalan: “Tel Dan”
- Cebuano: “Tel Dan”
- Chinese: “丹 (古城)”
- Chinese: “但城 (古城)”
- Chinese: “利善”
- Czech: “Tel Dan”
- Dutch: “Dan”
- Esperanto: “Laiŝ”
- Esperanto: “Leŝem”
- Esperanto: “Tel Dan”
- French: “Léshem”
- French: “Lèshem”
- French: “Tel Dan”
- German: “Tel Dan”
- German: “Tell al Kadi”
- Hebrew: “תל אל-קאדי”
- Hebrew: “תל דן”
- Hebrew: “תל השופט”
- Indonesian: “Dan”
- Indonesian: “Tel Dan”
- Italian: “Dan”
- Italian: “Lais”
- Italian: “Laish”
- Italian: “Lesem”
- Italian: “Tel Dan”
- Japanese: “ダン”
- Korean: “단”
- Korean: “라이사”
- Korean: “라이스”
- Korean: “레셈”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tel Dan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tel-Dan”
- Norwegian: “Tel Dan”
- Persian: “شهر باستانی دن”
- Polish: “Tel Dan”
- Portuguese: “Dã (antiga cidade)”
- Portuguese: “Dã”
- Romanian: “Tel Dan”
- Russian: “Дан”
- Spanish: “Lais”
- Spanish: “Laís”
- Spanish: “Reserva Tel Dan”
- Spanish: “Tel Dan”
- Swedish: “Tel Dan”
- Thai: “ดาน (เมืองโบราณ)”
- Thai: “ดาน”
- Turkish: “Dan”
- Ukrainian: “Дан”
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