Bersabe
Ancient city · Israel
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 32.931, 35.417
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Roman-era ruin between Upper and Lower Galilee
History
Bersabe, also known as Beersheba of Galilee, was a Second Temple period Jewish village located near the town of Kefar Hananya which marked the boundary between the Upper Galilee and the Lower Galilee, as described by Josephus, with Upper Galilee stretching from Bersabe in the Beit HaKerem Valley to Baca (Peki'in) in the north. Bersabe was one of several towns and villages of Galilee fortified by Josephus during the First Jewish–Roman War, being one of the most defensible positions and where insurgents from across Galilee had taken up refuge against the Imperial Roman army when the surrounding countryside was plundered.