Beit Guvrin
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Beit Guvrin may refer to:
- The ancient city of MareshaMareshaTel Maresha , also Marissa, is an antiquity site in Israel's southern lowlands. The tel was first excavated by the British archaeologists Bliss and Macalister on behalf of the Palestine Exploration Fund...
, now an archaeological museum, in Israel - The adjacent Roman and Byzantine city of EleutheropolisEleutheropolisEleutheropolis was the Greek name of a Roman city in Israel, some 53 km southwest of Jerusalem. Its remains still straddle the ancient road to Gaza. The site— already rendered as Baitogabra in Ptolemy's Geography— was called Beit Guvrin and Bet Gubrin in the Talmud...
, referred to as Beit Guvrin in Jewish scripture. - Beit Guvrin, Israel, a Kibbutz founded in 1949.
- Bayt JibrinBayt JibrinBayt Jibrin was a Palestinian Arab village located northwest of the city of Hebron. The village had a total land area of 56,185 dunams or , of which were built-up while the rest remained farmland.The early inhabitants of Bayt Jibrin are the Canaanites...
, a Palestinian village depopulated in 1948.