Ghoraniyeh or El Ghorahiyeh is a crossing (
ford
Ford commonly refers to:
* Ford Motor Company, an automobile manufacturer founded by Henry Ford
* Ford (crossing), a shallow crossing on a river
Ford may also refer to:
Ford Motor Company
* Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company
* Ford F ...
) by the
Jordan River
The Jordan River or River Jordan (, ''Nahr al-ʾUrdunn''; , ''Nəhar hayYardēn''), also known as ''Nahr Al-Sharieat'' (), is a endorheic river in the Levant that flows roughly north to south through the Sea of Galilee and drains to the Dead ...
south of
Wadi Nimrin
Wadi Shueib (), Arabic for the Valley of Jethro and properly Wadi Shuʿeib but with many variant romanisations, is a wadi in Jordan.
The alluvial fan of the wadi where it enters the southern part of the eastern Jordan Valley is known as Wadi ...
on the left bank where it joins
Wadi an Nuway'imah
Wadi ( ; ) is a river valley or a wet (ephemerality, ephemeral) Stream bed, riverbed that contains water only when heavy rain occurs. Wadis are located on gently sloping, nearly flat parts of deserts; commonly they begin on the distal portion ...
(Nuei'ameh, Nu'eima, etc.) on the right bank.
[Trelawney Saunders, ''An Introduction to the Survey of Western Palestine: Its Waterways, Plains & Highlands'', 1881,]
p. 169
( file @ Commons) During the
Ottoman times there was a bridge, destroyed during the
World War I
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...
by the retreating Ottomans. During the war it was an important
bridgehead
In military strategy, a bridgehead (or bridge-head) is the strategically important area of ground around the end of a bridge or other place of possible crossing over a body of water which at time of conflict is sought to be defended or taken over ...
.
References
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Bridges over the Jordan River
Geography of Palestine (region)