Tiberias

Tiberias is a city on the western shore of the in northern . A major Jewish center during Late Antiquity, it has been considered since the 18th century one of Judaism's Four Holy Cities, along with , , and .
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  • Type: Town with 45,900 residents
  • Description: city in Galilee, Israel
  • Also known as: “Mint of Tiberias”, “Tabarīya”, “Tabariyeh”, “Ṭabariyyah”, “Tevaryā”, “Teverya”, “Tiberius”, “Tiveria”, “Tubaria”, and “Tverya”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Berenice and Tomb of Maimonides.

Peak
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is a peak.

Memorial
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According to Jewish tradition, the is located in Tiberias, . Although Maimonides, a Sephardic Jew, died in , , on 12 December 1204, it is believed that he was only briefly buried in Fustat before being reinterred in Tiberias.

Church
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The St. Peter's Church is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church which is next to a monastery in Tiberias, a town on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, in the Lower Galilee, in northern District of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kfar Hitim and Mitzpa.

Village
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Kfar Hittim is a moshav shitufi in northern Israel. Located on a hill 3 km west of Tiberias, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council.

Village
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is a moshava in the Lower Galilee Regional Council, . Located next to the and Tiberias, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 149.

Village
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is a moshav in northern . Located beside next to the near Tiberias, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council. is situated 4½ km northwest of Tiberias.

Tiberias

Latitude
32.787° or 32° 47′ 13″ north
Longitude
35.5216° or 35° 31′ 18″ east
Population
45,900
Elevation
-39 metres (-128 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IL TIB
Open location code
8G4QQGPC+QJ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 786195800
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
293322
Wiki­data ID
Q151920
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tiberias” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tiberias”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Tiberiás”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Τιβεριάς”
  • Arabic: “طبريا”
  • Arabic: “طبرية”
  • Armenian: “Տիբերիա (Իսրայել)”
  • Armenian: “Տիբերիա”
  • Asturian: “Tiberias”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tiberiya”
  • Basque: “Tiberiade”
  • Basque: “Tiberiades”
  • Basque: “Tiberias”
  • Belarusian: “Тверыя”
  • Belarusian: “Тыбэрыя”
  • Belarusian: “Тыверыя”
  • Bengali: “তিবিরিয়া”
  • Breton: “Tiberias”
  • Bulgarian: “Тиберия”
  • Catalan: “Tiberíades”
  • Cebuano: “Tiberias”
  • Central Bikol: “Tiberias”
  • Central Kurdish: “تەبەریە”
  • Chinese: “提庇黎雅”
  • Chinese: “提比里亞”
  • Croatian: “Tiberijada”
  • Czech: “Tiberias”
  • Danish: “Tiberias”
  • Dutch: “Tiberias”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “طبريا”
  • Esperanto: “Tiberiado”
  • Finnish: “Tiberias”
  • French: “Tibériade”
  • French: “Tibérias”
  • Galician: “Tiberíades”
  • Georgian: “ტიბერია”
  • German: “Tiberias”
  • Greek: “Tiveriáda”
  • Greek: “Τιβεριάδα”
  • Greek: “Τιβεριάς”
  • Gujarati: “તિબેરિયાસ”
  • Hebrew: “טבריא”
  • Hebrew: “טבריה”
  • Hebrew: “תבריה”
  • Hindi: “तिबरियास”
  • Hindi: “तिबेरियास”
  • Hungarian: “Tiberias”
  • Indonesian: “Tiberias”
  • Interlingua: “Tiberiade”
  • Italian: “Tiberiade”
  • Japanese: “ティベリア”
  • Kannada: “ಟಿಬೆರಿಯಸ್”
  • Kashubian: “Tiberiada”
  • Korean: “티베리아스”
  • Ladino: “Tiberias”
  • Latin: “Tiberias”
  • Latvian: “Tiberija”
  • Latvian: “Tibērija”
  • Lithuanian: “Tiberijas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tiberias”
  • Macedonian: “Тиберијада”
  • Malagasy: “Tiberiada”
  • Malay: “Tabariyah”
  • Malay: “Tiberias”
  • Malayalam: “തിബെര്യാസ്”
  • Marathi: “तिबारीआस”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tiberias”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tiberias”
  • Norwegian: “Tiberias”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tiberiàs”
  • Persian: “طبریه”
  • Polish: “Tyberiada”
  • Portuguese: “Tiberíades”
  • Pushto: “تبريه”
  • Romanian: “Tiberias”
  • Russian: “Табарие”
  • Russian: “Табарийе”
  • Russian: “Тверия”
  • Russian: “Тивериада”
  • Russian: “Тиверия”
  • Scots: “Tiberias”
  • Serbian: “Тиберијада”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tiberijada”
  • Silesian: “Tyberjada”
  • Sinhala: “ටිබෙරියාස්”
  • Slovak: “Tverja”
  • Slovenian: “Tiberija”
  • Spanish: “Tiberiades”
  • Spanish: “Tiberíades”
  • Swahili: “Tiberia”
  • Swedish: “Tiberias”
  • Swiss German: “Tiberias”
  • Tagalog: “Tiberias”
  • Tamil: “திபேரியு”
  • Telugu: “టిబెరియాస్”
  • Thai: “ทิเบเรียส”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Tiberias”
  • Turkish: “Taberiye”
  • Turkish: “Tiberias”
  • Turkish: “Tiberya”
  • Ukrainian: “Тверія”
  • Ukrainian: “Тиверіада”
  • Urdu: “طبریہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Tiberias”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tiberias”
  • Western Frisian: “Tibearias”
  • Western Frisian: “Tiberias”
  • Wu Chinese: “提比里亚”
  • Yiddish: “טבריה”
  • Yue Chinese: “提庇黎雅”

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