Aphekou Pyrgos
fort · 330 BC – 2099 AD
Now occupied by the ruins of a 19th-century fortified manor house built atop and with spolia from a Crusader-era fortress, this hill and environs were in antiquity the site of a fortified village destroyed by the Romans in the first century but subsequently repopulated. Today a national park, the area was formerly occupied by the Palestinian village of Majdal Yaba, which was depopulated in the 1940s.
- Coordinates
- 32.07720, 34.95927
- Also known as
- Majdal Yaba, Medjel Yaba (ar), Migdal Afek, Migdal Afeq (he), Migdal Tsedek, Migal Tzedek, Migal Zedek (he), מגדל אפק (he), מגדל צדק (he), مجدل يابا (ar)
- Dating
- attested
Sources
- Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
- Wikidata · CC0 1.0Wikidata (CC0)