Modern locations of places in the Bible:
Latitude, Longitude | 31.889722, 35.271389 |
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Palestine 1928 Grid Coordinates (?) | 175784/144085 |
Type | settlement |
Point Precision | 1 km |
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Precise Coordinates Notes | this is a ruin that is also called Old Migron (OpenStreetMap); it matches "Migron" in Greenberg and Keinan, Israeli Archaeological Activity in the West Bank, 1967-2007 (2009) and an unnamed ruin on Palestine Open Maps (Western Palestine 1:63,000); however, according to Hastings, Dictionary of the Bible (1909), Makrun is 1/2 mile southeast of Burqa, while this point is closer to 1 mile |
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Credit: יעקב (modified)
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