Naaran

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Naaran is an ancient Jewish village dating to the 5th and 6th century CE, located in the West Bank. Remains of the village have been excavated north of Jericho, in Ephraim, between Bethel and Jericho. The mosaic floor of a synagogue was discovered at the site featuring a large zodiac design. Naaran is mentioned in Joshua 16:7 and 1 Chronicles 7:28 as a town in the eastern part of Ephraim. Eusebius, in his Onomasticon, makes mention of the site, saying that in his day it was "a village inhabited by Jews, five miles from Jericho." The site is also named in the writings of Josephus, under its name, and in the Midrash Rabba. Aramaic inscriptions and mosaics from the synagogue are displayed at an archaeology museum established by the Israeli archaeologist Yitzhak Magen at the Good Samaritan Inn. ()

Local name: נערן Coordinates: 31°53'2"N, 35°26'41"E

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Nearby attractions include: Hisham's Palace, Mount of Temptation, Monastery of the Temptation, Tower of Jericho.

0.9 miE
Historical place, Archaeological site
Hisham's Palace, Jericho
23 min walk • Hisham's Palace is an important early Islamic archaeological site of the Umayyad dynasty from the first half of the 8th century, one of the so-called Umayyad desert castles. It is located at Khirbat al-Mafjar, 5 km north of the town of Jericho, West Bank.
1 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount of Temptation, Jericho
27 min walk • The Mount of Temptation is said to be the hill in the Judean Desert where Jesus was tempted by the devil.
1.1 miSW
Sacred and religious sites, Monastery
Monastery of the Temptation, Jericho
29 min walk • The Monastery of the Temptation is a Greek Orthodox monastery located in Jericho, Palestine. It was built on the slopes of the Mount of Temptation 350 meters above sea level, situated along a cliff overlooking the city of Jericho and the Jordan Valley.
0.8 miS
Archaeological site
Tower of Jericho, Jericho
22 min walk • The Tower of Jericho is an 8.5-metre-tall stone structure, built in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period around 8000 BCE. It is considered the world’s first stone building, and possibly the world's first work of monumental architecture.
0.7 miS
Synagogue
Jericho synagogue, Jericho
18 min walk • The Jericho synagogue dates to the late 6th or early 7th century CE and was discovered in Jericho in 1936.
1 miS
Historical place, Ruins
Tell es-Sultan, Jericho
26 min walk • Tell es-Sultan, also known as Tel Jericho or Ancient Jericho, is a UNESCO-nominated archaeological site in the West Bank, located adjacent to the Ein as-Sultan refugee camp two kilometres north of the centre of Jericho.
1.2 miNW
31°53'38"N • 35°25'43"E
Banana Land Amusement Park, Jericho
30 min walk • Park