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Tell es-Sultan

Tell es-Sultan, also known as Tel Jericho or Ancient Jericho, is an archaeological site and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in , in the city of , consisting of the remains of the oldest fortified city in the world.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: archaeological site in the West Bank
  • Also known as: “Ancient Jericho”, “Arīḩā al Qadīmah”, “Jericho”, “Old Jericho”, and “Tel Jericho”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ain al-Sultan and Mount of Temptation.

Spring
Ein es-Sultan is a natural spring in , at the site of ancient Jericho, which has been identified with the tell known as Tell es-Sultan. It is known by Jews and Christians as the Spring of Elisha/Elisha's Spring, based on a biblical story about Prophet Elisha.

Peak
Photo: Tango7174, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, in Palestinian Arabic Jebel Quruntul, is a mountain over the city of in the ; ancient Christian tradition identifies it as the location of the temptation of Jesus described in the New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, in which it is said that, from "a high place", the Devil offered Jesus rule over all the kingdoms of the world.

Monastery
Photo: DR, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Monastery of the Temptation is a Greek Orthodox monastery located in , . It was built on the slopes of the 350 meters above sea level, situated along a cliff overlooking the city of and the Jordan Valley. is situated 1¼ km west of Tell es-Sultan.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ein Alsultan Refugee Camp and Ein ad-Duyuk at-Tahta.

Village
Photo: James Emery, CC BY 2.0.
ʿEin es-Sulṭān camp, or ʿEin Sultan camp, is a refugee camp in the of the State of Palestine, in the Jordan Valley, in the eastern .

Neighborhood
, is a Palestinian village in the in the eastern situated in the Jordan Valley, located two kilometers west of .

Suburb
al-Nuway'imah is a Palestinian village in the in the eastern , located five kilometers north of . It is situated in a low elevation below sea level in the central Jordan Valley.

Tell es-Sultan

Latitude
31.87097° or 31° 52′ 16″ north
Longitude
35.44432° or 35° 26′ 40″ east
Elevation
-211 metres (-692 feet)
Open location code
8G3QVCCV+9P
Open­Street­Map ID
way 458057319
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
8067647
Wiki­data ID
Q2402267
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Tell es-Sultan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “اريحا القديمة”
  • Arabic: “تل السلطان”
  • Catalan: “Antic Jericó”
  • Catalan: “Tel es-Sultan”
  • Catalan: “Tel Jericó”
  • Catalan: “Tell es-Sultan”
  • Chinese: “泰爾蘇丹”
  • Chinese: “耶利哥古城遺址”
  • Chinese: “耶利哥土丘”
  • Chinese: “耶利哥土墩”
  • Chinese: “耶利哥廢丘”
  • Chinese: “苏丹台形遗址”
  • Dutch: “Tel Jericho”
  • Dutch: “Tell es-Sultan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تل السلطان”
  • French: “Tell es-Sultan”
  • German: “Tell as Sultan”
  • German: “Tell as-Sultan”
  • German: “Tell es Sultan”
  • German: “Tell es-Sultan”
  • Greek: “Τελ ες-Σουλτάν”
  • Hebrew: “תל א-סולטאן”
  • Hebrew: “תל יריחו”
  • Hungarian: “Tell es-Sultan”
  • Hungarian: “Tell esz-Szultán”
  • Hungarian: “Tell-es-Szultan”
  • Hungarian: “Tell-esz-Szultan”
  • Indonesian: “Tell es-Sultan”
  • Italian: “Tell es-Sultan”
  • Japanese: “テル・エス・スルタン遺跡”
  • Japanese: “テル・エッ・スルタン”
  • Maltese: “Ġeriko tal-Qedem”
  • Maltese: “Tell as-Sultan”
  • Maltese: “Tell es-Sultan”
  • Persian: “تل السلطان”
  • Portuguese: “Tell es-Sultan”
  • Slovenian: “Antični Jeriho”
  • Spanish: “Tell es Sultan”
  • Spanish: “Tell es-Sultan”
  • Turkish: “Tell es-Sultan”
  • Urdu: “تل سلطان (اریحا)”
  • Urdu: “تل سلطان”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Tell es-Sultan”. Photo: Fullo88, Public domain.