…The Galilee Mountains (Jibāl al‐Jalīl) at the northern end of Palestine are connected to the Lebanon Mountains to the north, and cities such as Safad and Nazareth were born in the Galilee Mountains. Southern Palestine, further south from the Judean Mountains, forms a large triangle like the tip of a sword or the butt of a gun, jutting into the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea. This part is the Negev Desert, which continues directly into the Sinai Desert to the west, and faces the wilderness of the Sharaf Mountains in southern Jordan, across the part of the Jordan Rift Valley south of the Dead Sea, namely, the Wadi al‐'Araba, to the east. In the plains and mountains facing the Mediterranean Sea in Palestine, and also in the Plain of Esdraelon (Ibn 'Amir Plain) that spreads between the Samaritan Mountains and the Galilean Mountains, the cultivation of fruit trees and grains has been popular since ancient times. … *Some of the glossaries that mention "Wādī al-'Araba" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…パレスティナ北端のガリラヤ山地(ジャリール山地Jibāl al‐Jalīl)はその北のレバノン山地に連結しているが,ガリラヤ山地にはサファドやナザレなどの都市が生まれた。ユデア山地からさらに南方のパレスティナ南部は,紅海のアカバ湾に突き立つ形の剣の切っ先あるいは銃床にもあたる大きな三角地帯をなすが,この部分はネゲブの砂漠で,それは西のシナイ砂漠にそのまま連なっており,東は,ヨルダン地溝帯のうち死海から南の部分すなわちワーディー・アルアラバWādī al‐‘Arabaを隔ててヨルダン南部のシャラーフ山地の荒野と向き合っている。パレスティナの地中海に面した平野や山地,さらにサマリア山地とガリラヤ山地との間に広がるエスドラエロンの平野(イブン・アーミル平原)では,果樹や穀物の栽培が古くから盛んであった。… ※「Wādī al-‘Araba」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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