Ghoraniyeh

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A WWI sketch of the Jordan Valley FallsSkMap24detJordanValley.jpeg
A WWI sketch of the Jordan Valley
Ruins of the burnt bridge and a pontoon bridge; Ghoraniyeh WWI bridgehead; by James McBey (1918) Ghoraniyeh - the remains of the old bridge across the Jordan, burnt by the Turks Art.IWMART1549.jpg
Ruins of the burnt bridge and a pontoon bridge; Ghoraniyeh WWI bridgehead; by James McBey (1918)

Ghoraniyeh or El Ghorahiyeh is a crossing (ford) by the Jordan River south of Wadi Nimrin on the left bank [1] where it joins Wadi an Nuway'imah (Nuei'ameh, Nu'eima, etc.) on the right bank. [2] During the Ottoman times there was a bridge, destroyed during World War I by the retreating Ottomans. During the war it was an important bridgehead.[ whose? ]

References

  1. ↑ Power, E. (1935). "The Site of the Pentapolis". Biblica, vol. 11, no. 1, GBPress- Gregorian Biblical Press, pp. 23–62 [35], JSTOR   42613807.
  2. ↑ Trelawney Saunders (1881). An Introduction to the Survey of Western Palestine: Its Waterways, Plains & Highlands, p. 169 (file @ Commons)
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