erika şehri

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Definition of erika şehri in Turkish English dictionary

Jericho

A surname

An ancient town in the West Bank

a city in Israel, north of the Dead Sea. It is the oldest city in the world. According to the Old Testament of the Bible, it was attacked by Joshua, the leader of the Israelites, and his army shouted and blew their trumpets so loudly that the walls of the city fell down. Arabic Ar Town (pop., 1997: 14,674), West Bank territory. Inhabited since 9000 BC, it is famous in biblical tradition as the first town attacked by the Israelites under Joshua after they crossed the Jordan River. It was abandoned or destroyed several times and rebuilt in the same area. Captured by the British in 1918, it became part of the British mandate of Palestine. Incorporated into Jordan in 1950, it became the site of two huge camps of Arab refugees following the first Arab-Israeli war (1948). In the Six-Day War (1967), the town was occupied by Israel, and much of the refugee population was dispersed. In 1994 it was turned over to the Palestinian Authority under an Israeli-Palestinian self-rule agreement

A place of retirement or concealment (see 2 Sam. 10: 5)

{i} city in the West Bank under the control of the Palestinian Authority; city conquered by the Joshua and the Israelites as they came into the Promised Land (Biblical)

Hyphenation

e·ri·ka şeh·ri