Israel
Sea of Galilee region
Northern District

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 16th 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: “Tabarīya”, “Tabariyeh”, “Ṭabariyyah”, “Tevaryā”, “Teverya”, “Tiberius”, “Tiveria”, “Tubaria”, and “Tverya”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Capture of Tiberias and Tomb of Maimonides.

Battlefield
Photo: George Washington Lambert, Public domain.
The took place on 25 September 1918 during the Battle of Sharon which together with the Battle of Nablus formed the set piece Battle of Megiddo fought between 19 and 25 September in the last months of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War.

Memorial
Photo: Almog, Public domain.
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.

Peak
Photo: Hanay, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a peak.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kefar Hittim and Mitzpa.

Village
Photo: Danny Gershoni, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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
Photo: Asafsagi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 2023 it had a population of 158.

Village
Photo: Almog, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
32.7892° or 32° 47′ 21″ north
Longitude
35.5216° or 35° 31′ 18″ east
Population
45,900
Elevation
-140 metres (-459 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IL TIB
Open location code
8G4QQGQC+MJ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 786195800
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
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”
  • 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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