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.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site in southeastern Israel
- Also known as: “Assedio di Masada”, “Belagerung von Masada”, “Beleiringen av Masada”, “Es-Sebbeh”, “Fortaleza de Massada”, “Forteresse de Massada”, “Fortezza di Masada”, “Ḥorvot Metsada”, “H̱orvot Meẕada”, “Masadá”, “Masadà”, “Masados tvirtovė”, “Massada”, “Massada Rock Fortress”, “Massada-Nationalpark”, “Matsada”, “Mesada”, “Metsada”, “Metzada”, “Mezada”, “Mezadá”, “Sabba”, “Sebbe”, “Setge de Masada”, “Массада”, “Национальный парк Массада”, “מַסָּדָה”, “قلعة مصعدة”, “マサダ砦”, “マサダ要塞”, and “馬撒大”
Places of Interest
Highlights: The Synagogue and The Byzantine church.
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″ north
Longitude
35.3537° or 35° 21′ 14″ east
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
IATA airport code
MTZ
Open location code
8G3Q8983+7F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Masada” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل مسعدة”
- Arabic: “متسادا”
- Arabic: “مسادا”
- Armenian: “Մասադա”
- Azerbaijani: “Masada”
- Basque: “Masada”
- Belarusian: “Масада”
- Bengali: “মাসাদা”
- Bulgarian: “Масада”
- Catalan: “Masada”
- Catalan: “Massada”
- Chinese: “馬薩達”
- Chinese: “马萨达”
- Croatian: “Masada”
- Czech: “Masada”
- Danish: “Masada”
- Dutch: “Massada”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مساده”
- Esperanto: “Masada”
- Finnish: “Masada”
- French: “Massada”
- Galician: “Masada”
- Georgian: “მასადა”
- German: “Masada”
- Greek: “Μασάντα”
- Hebrew: “H̱orvot Metsada”
- Hebrew: “חרבות מצדה”
- Hebrew: “מצדה”
- Hindi: “मसादा”
- Hungarian: “Masszáda”
- Indonesian: “Masada”
- Italian: “Masada”
- Japanese: “マサダ”
- Javanese: “Masada”
- Korean: “마사다”
- Ladino: “Masada”
- Latin: “Masada”
- Latvian: “Masada”
- Lithuanian: “Masada”
- Luxembourgish: “Masada”
- Macedonian: “Масада”
- Malagasy: “Masada”
- Malayalam: “മസാദ”
- Maltese: “Masada”
- Mingrelian: “მასადა”
- Mongolian: “Масада”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Masada”
- Norwegian: “Masada”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Massada”
- Persian: “ماسادا”
- Persian: “مسعده”
- Polish: “Masada”
- Portuguese: “Massada”
- Romanian: “Masada”
- Russian: “Масада”
- Sardinian: “Masada”
- Scots: “Masada”
- Serbian: “Masada”
- Serbian: “Масада”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Masada”
- Slovak: “Masada”
- Slovenian: “mesada”
- Spanish: “Masada”
- Swedish: “Masada”
- Tamil: “மசாடா”
- Turkish: “Masada”
- Ukrainian: “Масада”
- Vietnamese: “Masada”
- Waray (Philippines): “Masada”
- Welsh: “Masada”
- Western Panjabi: “مسادا”
- Wu Chinese: “马萨达”
- Yiddish: “מצדה”
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