🏛️ Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town

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The Old City of Hebron is the historic city centre of Hebron. The Hebron of antiquity is thought by archaeologists to have originally started elsewhere, at Tel Rumeida, which is approximately 200 meters (660 ft) west of today's Old City, and thought to have originally been a Canaanite city. Today's Old City was settled in Greek or Roman times. It became the center of the overall Hebron site during the Abbasid Caliphate.

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Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town is a cultural World Heritage site in State of Palestine, in Asia. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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