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.
- Archaeological site
- …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (40 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code MTZ
- Description: archaeological site in southeastern Israel
- Also known as“Es-Sebbeh”“Ḥorvot Metsada”“H̱orvot Meẕada”“Massada”“Massada Rock Fortress”“Metzada”“Sabba”“Sebbe”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Synagogue and The Byzantine church.
The Byzantine church
The Byzantine church is an archaeological site.
Masada
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Latitude
31.3156° or 31° 18′ 56″ north
Longitude
35.3537° or 35° 21′ 14″ east
Open location code
8G3Q8983+7F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Masada” goes by many names.
جبل مسعدةArabic
قلعة مصعدةArabic
متساداArabic
مساداArabic
ՄասադաArmenian
MasadaAzerbaijani
MasadaBasque
МасадаBelarusian
মাসাদাBengali
МасадаBulgarian
MasadàCatalan
MassadaCatalan
Setge de MasadaCatalan
馬撒大Chinese
馬薩達Chinese
马萨达Chinese
MasadaCroatian
MasadaCzech
MassadaCzech
MasadaDanish
MassadaDutch
MatsadaDutch
MetsadaDutch
مسادهEgyptian Arabic
MasadaEsperanto
MasadaFinnish
MasadaGalician
მასადაGeorgian
ΜασάνταGreek
H̱orvot MetsadaHebrew
חרבות מצדהHebrew
מַסָּדָהHebrew
מצדהHebrew
मसादाHindi
MasszádaHungarian
MasadaIndonesian
Assedio di MasadaItalian
Fortezza di MasadaItalian
MasadaItalian
MassadaItalian
マサダJapanese
マサダ砦Japanese
マサダ要塞Japanese
MasadaJavanese
마사다Korean
MasadaLadino
MasadaLatin
MasadaLatvian
MasadaLithuanian
Masados tvirtovėLithuanian
MasadaLuxembourgish
МасадаMacedonian
MasadaMalagasy
മസാദMalayalam
MasadaMaltese
მასადაMingrelian
МасадаMongolian
MasadaNorwegian
Beleiringen av MasadaNorwegian Bokmål
MasadaNorwegian Bokmål
MassadaOccitan (post 1500)
ماساداPersian
مسعدهPersian
MasadaPolish
MasadaRomanian
МасадаRussian
МассадаRussian
Национальный парк МассадаRussian
MasadaSardinian
MasadaSwedish
MassadaSwedish
மசாடாTamil
MasadaTurkish
МасадаUkrainian
МассадаUkrainian
MasadaVietnamese
MasadaWaray (Philippines)
MasadaWelsh
مساداWestern Panjabi
马萨达Wu Chinese
מצדהYiddish
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