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Ghoraniyeh

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A WWI sketch of the Jordan Valley
Ruins of the burnt bridge and a pontoon bridge; Ghoraniyeh WWI bridgehead; by James McBey (1918)

Ghoraniyeh or El Ghorahiyeh is a crossing (ford) by the Jordan River south of Wadi Nimrin on the left bank where it joins Wadi an Nuway'imah (Nuei'ameh, Nu'eima, etc.) on the right bank. During the Ottoman times there was a bridge, destroyed during the World War I by the retreating Ottomans. During the war it was an important bridgehead.

References

  1. Power, E. “THE SITE OF THE PENTAPOLIS.” Biblica, vol. 11, no. 1, GBPress- Gregorian Biblical Press, 1930, pp. 23–62, JSTOR 42613807, p.35
  2. Trelawney Saunders, An Introduction to the Survey of Western Palestine: Its Waterways, Plains & Highlands, 1881, p. 169 (file @ Commons)
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