Historical Places, ZHO-ẒAF
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Zhoukoudian, archaeological site near the village of Zhoukoudian, Beijing municipality, China, 26 miles (42 km)......
Zincirli Höyük, archaeological site in the foothills of the Anti-Taurus Mountains, south-central Turkey. Samal......
Zululand, traditional region in the northeastern section of present-day KwaZulu-Natal (formerly Natal) province,......
Çatalhüyük, major Neolithic site in the Middle East, located near Konya in south-central Turkey. Excavations (1961–65)......
Évora, city and concelho (municipality), south-central Portugal. It lies in a fertile valley surrounded by low......
Úbeda, city, Jaén provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Andalusia, southern......
Český Krumlov, city, South Bohemia region, southwestern Czech Republic. Situated roughly 15 miles (25 km) southwest......
ʿAbdali sultanate, former semi-independent state in the southern Arabian Peninsula, in what is now Yemen. Located......
ʿAdullam, ancient city and modern development region, in the upper part of Ha-Shefela, central Israel. The mound......
Tall al-ʿAjjul, ancient site in southern Palestine, located at the mouth of the Ghazzah Wadi just south of the......
ʿAmūq, plain of southern Turkey, bordering Syria. Framed by mountains, the plain is about 190 square miles (500......
ʿEn Gedi, oasis, archaeological site, and kibbutz (communal settlement) in southeastern Israel on the west bank......
Tall al-ʿUbayd, ancient site that gave its name to a prehistoric cultural period, the Ubaid, in Mesopotamia; it......
Tall Ḥalaf, archaeological site of ancient Mesopotamia, on the headwaters of the Khābur River near modern Raʾs......
Tel Ḥasi, ancient archaeological site in southwestern Palestine, located southwest of Lachish (Tel Lakhish) in......
Ḥaḍramawt, ancient South Arabian kingdom that occupied what are now southern and southeastern Yemen and the present-day......
Ḥiṣn al-Ghurāb, historic mountain site located on the southern coast of Arabia in southern Yemen. On the summit......
al-Ḥīrah, (from Syriac ḥirtā, “camp”), ancient city located south of Kūfah in south-central Iraq; it was prominent......
Ṣaqqārah, part of the necropolis of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Cairo and......
Ẓafār, ancient Arabian site located southwest of Yarīm in southern Yemen. It was the capital of the Himyarites,......