Antipatris
Antipatris was a city built during the first century BC by Herod the Great, who named it in honour of his father, Antipater. The site, now a national park in central Israel, was inhabited from the Chalcolithic period to the Late Roman period.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient human settlement
- Also known as: “Afeq” and “Antipartris”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Rosh HaAyin–North railway station and Al-Mirr.
Rosh HaAyin–North railway station
Railway station
Photo: Eden1996, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Rosh HaAyin–North railway station is a suburban passenger railway station in Israel, operated by Israel Railways. It is situated in north Rosh HaAyin near the Kesem Interchange which is located at the intersection of Highway 5 and the Cross-Israel Highway. Rosh HaAyin–North railway station is situated 1½ km north of Antipatris.
Al-Mirr
Ruins
Al-Mirr, also named Mahmudiyeh, was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict, which was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on February 1, 1948. Al-Mirr is situated 2 km northwest of Antipatris.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Givat HaShlosha and Rosh HaAyin.
Givat HaShlosha
Village
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Givat HaShlosha is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located about 4 km east of Petah Tikva, near the Yarkon river, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom Hasharon Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 744.
Rosh HaAyin
Town
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Rosh HaAyin is a city in the Central District of Israel. It is located in the eastern ravine of the Sharon Plain, opposite the Samaria Mountains. The city is named after its location at the source of the Yarkon River.
Einat
Village
Photo: Avi1111, Public domain.
Einat is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located near Petah Tikva and south of Rosh HaAyin, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 902. Einat is situated 2½ km south of Antipatris.
Antipatris
- Categories: human settlement, tell, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Central District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wolof—“Antipatris” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أنتيباتريس”
- Arabic: “تل افاق”
- Bulgarian: “Антипатрида”
- Catalan: “Antipatris”
- Cebuano: “Tel Afeq”
- Chinese: “安提帕底”
- Czech: “Tel Afek”
- Dutch: “Antipatris”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تل افاق”
- Esperanto: “Antipatrido”
- Finnish: “Antipatris”
- French: “Tel Afek”
- German: “Antipatris”
- Greek: “Αντιπατρίς”
- Hebrew: “אנטיפטרוס”
- Hebrew: “אנטיפטריס”
- Hebrew: “אפק”
- Hebrew: “תל אפק”
- Hungarian: “Antipatrisz”
- Indonesian: “Antipatris”
- Irish: “Antipatris”
- Italian: “Antipatride”
- Italian: “Tel Afek”
- Japanese: “アンティパトリス”
- Latin: “Antipatris”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Antipatris”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ras al-Ain”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tel Afeq”
- Portuguese: “Antipátrida”
- Romanian: “Tel Afek (Antipatris)”
- Romanian: “Tel Afek”
- Russian: “Антипатрида”
- Spanish: “Antipatris”
- Swedish: “Antipatris”
- Turkish: “Antipatris”
- Ukrainian: “Антипатрида”
- Wolof: “Antipataris”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Antipatris”. Photo: Deror avi, CC BY-SA 3.0.