Masada
Masada is a magnificently located fortress site in Israel's stark Judaean Desert, close to the Dead Sea. The last Jewish holdout to fall to Rome in 73 CE, Masada symbolizes the exile of the Jewish nation from the Holy Land.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site in southeastern Israel
- Also known as: “Es-Sebbeh”, “Ḥorvot Metsada”, “H̱orvot Meẕada”, “Massada”, “Massada Rock Fortress”, “Metzada”, “Sabba”, and “Sebbe”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Synagogue and The Byzantine church.
The Synagogue
Archaeological site
Photo: Chris06, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Synagogue is an archaeological site.
The Byzantine church
Archaeological site
Photo: Chris06, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Byzantine church is an archaeological site.
Masada
- Categories: fortress, World Heritage Site, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Southern District, Negev, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.3156° or 31° 18′ 56″ northLongitude
35.3537° or 35° 21′ 14″ eastElevation
13 metres (43 feet)IATA airport code
MTZOpen location code
8G3Q8983+7FOpenStreetMap ID
way 32231475OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteGeoNames ID
294682Wikidata ID
Q186312
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Masada” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل مسعدة”
- Arabic: “قلعة مصعدة”
- Arabic: “متسادا”
- Arabic: “مسادا”
- Armenian: “Մասադա”
- Azerbaijani: “Masada”
- Basque: “Masada”
- Belarusian: “Масада”
- Bengali: “মাসাদা”
- Bulgarian: “Масада”
- Catalan: “Masada”
- Catalan: “Masadà”
- Catalan: “Massada”
- Catalan: “Setge de Masada”
- Chinese: “馬撒大”
- Chinese: “馬薩達”
- Chinese: “马萨达”
- Croatian: “Masada”
- Czech: “Masada”
- Czech: “Massada”
- Danish: “Masada”
- Dutch: “Massada”
- Dutch: “Matsada”
- Dutch: “Metsada”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مساده”
- Esperanto: “Masada”
- Finnish: “Masada”
- French: “Forteresse de Massada”
- French: “Massada”
- Galician: “Masada”
- Georgian: “მასადა”
- German: “Belagerung von Masada”
- German: “Masada”
- German: “Massada-Nationalpark”
- German: “Massada”
- German: “Mesada”
- German: “Mezada”
- German: “Mezadá”
- Greek: “Μασάντα”
- Hebrew: “H̱orvot Metsada”
- Hebrew: “חרבות מצדה”
- Hebrew: “מַסָּדָה”
- Hebrew: “מצדה”
- Hindi: “मसादा”
- Hungarian: “Masszáda”
- Indonesian: “Masada”
- Italian: “Assedio di Masada”
- Italian: “Fortezza di Masada”
- Italian: “Masada”
- Italian: “Massada”
- Japanese: “マサダ”
- Japanese: “マサダ砦”
- Japanese: “マサダ要塞”
- Javanese: “Masada”
- Korean: “마사다”
- Ladino: “Masada”
- Latin: “Masada”
- Latvian: “Masada”
- Lithuanian: “Masada”
- Lithuanian: “Masados tvirtovė”
- Luxembourgish: “Masada”
- Macedonian: “Масада”
- Malagasy: “Masada”
- Malayalam: “മസാദ”
- Mingrelian: “მასადა”
- Mongolian: “Масада”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beleiringen av Masada”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Masada”
- Norwegian: “Masada”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Massada”
- Persian: “ماسادا”
- Persian: “مسعده”
- Polish: “Masada”
- Portuguese: “Fortaleza de Massada”
- Portuguese: “Masada”
- Portuguese: “Massada”
- Romanian: “Masada”
- Russian: “Масада”
- Russian: “Массада”
- Russian: “Национальный парк Массада”
- Sardinian: “Masada”
- Scots: “Masada”
- Serbian: “Masada”
- Serbian: “Масада”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Masada”
- Slovak: “Masada”
- Slovenian: “mesada”
- Spanish: “Masada”
- Spanish: “Masadá”
- Spanish: “Massada”
- Swedish: “Masada”
- Swedish: “Massada”
- Tamil: “மசாடா”
- Turkish: “Masada”
- Ukrainian: “Масада”
- Ukrainian: “Массада”
- Vietnamese: “Masada”
- Waray (Philippines): “Masada”
- Welsh: “Masada”
- Western Panjabi: “مسادا”
- Wu Chinese: “马萨达”
- Yiddish: “מצדה”
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