Hawran (English spelling)

Japanese: Ḥawrān(英語表記)Hawran
Hawran (English spelling)

…South of Mount Hermon lies the Golan Heights (average elevation about 1000m, occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War and since then a disputed area between the two countries). Southeast of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains and east of the Golan Heights lies the Hawran Plain, and to the southeast of that is Mount Druze (1798m). The arc-shaped area stretching from south to north through the Hawran Plain, Damascus Oasis, Homs, the Hama Plain, the Aleppo Plain, and further to the northeast into the Jazira region between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers forms the western half of the Fertile Crescent. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Ḥawrān" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ヘルモン山の南にはゴラン高原(平均標高約1000m,1967年の第3次中東戦争でイスラエルが占領,以後両国の係争地となっている)がある。アンチ・レバノン山脈の南東,ゴラン高原の東にはハウラーンḤawrān平野が広がり,その南東にはドルーズ山(1798m)がある。南から北にハウラーン平野,ダマスクス・オアシス,ホムス,ハマーの平地,アレッポ平野,さらには北東のユーフラテス,ティグリス両河川に挟まれたジャジーラ地方へと連なる弧状の地帯は,〈肥沃な三日月地帯〉の西半分を形成している。…

※「Ḥawrān」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。

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