…The northern end of the Samaritan Mountains, Mount Carmel al-Karmal, juts out into the Mediterranean Sea, and created the ports of Akka (Acre) and Haifa. 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 jutting into the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea, like the tip of a sword or the butt of a gun. This part is the Negev Desert, which continues directly into the Sinai Desert to the west, and to the east it faces the wilderness of the Sharaf Mountains in southern Jordan, across the part of the Jordan Rift Valley south of the Dead Sea, i.e., the Wadi al-'Araba. … *Some of the terminology that mentions "Jibāl al-Jalīl" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…サマリア山地の北端はカルメルal‐Karmal山となって地中海に突き出し,アッカー(アッコ)やハイファの良港をつくり出した。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。… ※「Jibāl al-Jalīl」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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