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Jericho

Jericho is a city in the West Bank near the Jordan River, north of the Dead Sea, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world, with settlement at Tell es-Sultan from about 9000 BCE. Its springs and palm groves made it a royal estate under the Hasmoneans and Herod the Great, who built winter palaces there.

Jericho
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Herodian Ethnarchy of Judea

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