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"The Galilee"
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THE GALILEE IS A MOUNTAINOUS LAND IN NORTHERN ISRAEL. THE FRONTIERS OF THE GALILEE ARE THE YASSAL VALLEY AND THE BEIT HAN VALLEY IN THE SOUTH, THE JORDAN VALLEY, THE VIOLIN AND THE PATIENT VALLEY IN THE EAST, THE MEDITERRANEAN COAST AND THE SABULON VALLEY IN THE WEST, AND SOUTHERN LEBANON IN THE NORTH. AMONG THE GEOGRAPHICAL COMMUNITY IN ISRAEL, IT IS ACCEPTED TO SEE THE POLITICAL BORDER BETWEEN THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND LEBANON AS THE NORTHERN BORDER OF THE GALILEE.
LIMITS OF BOUNDARIES
THE BORDER LINE BETWEEN THE UPPER GALILEE AND THE LOWER GALILEE IS THE TEMPLE VALLEY, WHICH IS A NARROW VALLEY THAT RUNS EAST AND WEST IN THE CENTER OF THE GALILEE. WHILE THE UPPER GALILEE IS CHARACTERIZED BY HIGH MOUNTAINS, THE TALLEST OF WHICH IS THE MERON MOUNTAIN, WHICH IS 1204 METERS TALL, THE LOWER GALILEE IS CHARACTERIZED BY RELATIVELY LOW MOUNTAINS SEPARATED BY THE VALLEYS ACROSS HANDS. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE TWO PARTS OF THE GALILEE IS ANCIENT, AND IS ALREADY MENTIONED IN THE SECOND: "FROM THE VILLAGE OF NANIA (A SETTLEMENT IN THE TEMPLE VALLEY) AND ABOVE, ALL THAT IS NOT THE TOWER OF KAMIN - THE UPPER GALILEE, AND FROM THE VILLAGE OF NITZNA AND THETAN, ALL THAT IS A CYLINDER - THE LOWER CYLINDER."
TODAY, THE GALILEE IN THE BROAD SENSE REFERS TO THE ENTIRE ISRAELI AREA FROM THE NORTHERN SIDE OF THE CARMEL (NOT INCLUDING THE GOLAN), SO THAT THE VALLEYS ARE INCLUDED IN IT, BUT THE AREA IS USUALLY NOT CONSIDERED PART OF THE GALILEE. THIS DEFINITION IS LESS OR LESS OVERLAPPING THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR (NOT INCLUDING THE GOLAN), WHICH ALSO INCLUDES SOME OF THE LEVELS OF MANAIDA NEXT TO AN ELITE FIXATION, BUT NOT THE SYDNEY RIVER, WHICH IS CONSIDERED PART OF THE GALILEE AND EVEN SITS ON THE SOUTHWESTERN EDGE OF THE LOWER GALILEE.
HISTORY OF HISTORY
PRE-HISTORY
THE HUMAN COMMUNITY IN THE ANCIENT GALILEE. THERE ARE MANY EVIDENCE OF SETTLEMENT IN THE GALILEE DURING THE STONE AGE IN CAVES AND SITES UNDER THE DOME OF HEAVEN. ONE OF THE EARLIEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN ISRAEL IS A QUARANT THAT IS NEAR THE CROSSING. ON THIS SITE, ELEPHANT BONES AND OTHER EXTINCT ANIMALS WERE DISCOVERED ALONG WITH A STONE VESSEL CHARACTERISTIC OF THE ANCIENT ASHELITE CULTURE OF THE LOWER PALEOLITHIC PERIOD AND IT DATES TO ABOUT A MILLION YEARS BEFORE OUR TIME. ON THE ASHLEY BRIDGE IN THE UPPER JORDAN VALLEY, WHICH WAS APPROXIMATELY 790,000 YEARS OLD, THE EARLIEST EVIDENCE OF FIRE CONTROL AND OTHER ANIMALS WERE DISCOVERED.
AT A LATER STAGE OF THE LOWER PLURAL PERIOD, ABOUT 300,000 YEARS AGO, HE LIVED IN THE ZOTIA CAVE IN THE GALILEE MAN, THE SON OF THE JUDEO-BERDIA CULTURE. DURING THE PERIOD OF THE MIDDLE AGES (THE MYSTERY CULTURE, 250,000 - 45,000 YEARS BEFORE OUR TIME, TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE TOOK PLACE IN THE GALILEE: THE NEANDERTHAL MAN AND MODERN MAN (JOMONS). NEANDERTHALS WERE DISCOVERED IN A COLUMN CAVE, ALONG WITH THE REMAINS OF A MASS VESSEL, ANIMAL BONES THAT WERE DESTROYED AND FRAGMENTS FROM 55,000 YEARS AGO. IN THE CAVE OF KAZEZ, A SIMILAR SETTLEMENT OF HOMO SAPIENS WAS DISCOVERED, WHICH IS ONE OF THE EARLIEST EVIDENCE OF ITS PRESENCE OUTSIDE AFRICA AND DISCOVERED ABOUT 100,000 YEARS. THE MODERN HUMAN SKULL OF ABOUT 55,000 YEARS THAT HAS RECENTLY BEEN DISCOVERED IN A DISH CAVE INDICATES THAT THE TWO SPECIES OF MAN MAY HAVE BEEN SIMULTANEOUSLY HELD IN THE GALILEE IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES. THE RICH CAMPS OF THE HIGH PALEOLITHIC HOMO SAPIENS GROUPS (ABOUT 47,000–23,000 YEARS PRIOR TO OUR TIME) WERE DISCOVERED IN THE BOWL OF CAPSULES, A BOWL OF DISHES AND A CAVE OF BEES.
THE FIRST SETTLEMENT ESTABLISHED IN THE NETOFI CULTURE, ABOUT 15,000 - 11,500 YEARS AGO, IS REPRESENTED ON A CLOUDY SITE IN THE PATIENT VALLEY, WHERE STONE BUILDINGS, CEMETERIES AND LARGE SETTLEMENT WASTE WERE DISCOVERED. IN THE CAVE OF THE WHALES AND SURROUNDING SITES, SIMILAR SETTLEMENTS WERE ALSO DISCOVERED. FROM ABOUT 11,000 YEARS IN THE GALILEE MANY AGRICULTURAL VILLAGES TOOK PLACE IN THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD, SUCH AS ARCHAL, BISMON AND THE VILLAGE.
MANY FINDINGS IN THE GALILEE HAVE BEEN COLLECTED REGARDING THE COLONIAL PERIOD. A BURIAL CAVE WAS FOUND FROM THIS PERIOD. TODAY, 22 SEPARATE SETTLEMENTS ARE KNOWN IN THE MOUNTAINOUS GALILEE, ALL ALONG WITH WATER SOURCES, FROM THE CHLOCAL PERIOD (IN WHICH THEY ARE WELL). ON SITES