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Silwān (Jerusalem)

LC control no.n 88282254
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Geographic headingSilwān (Jerusalem)
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Variant(s)Jerusalem. Silwān
Kefar ha-Shiloaḥ (Jerusalem)
סילוואן (Jerusalem)
Special noteNon-Latin script reference not evaluated.
SUBJECT USAGE: This heading is not valid for use as a geographic subdivision.
Found inUssishkin, D. Kefar-ha-Shiloaḥ, 1986 or 1987: t.p. (Kefar-ha-Shiloaḥ) t.p. verso (Village of Silwan [in rom.])
Encyc. Judaica, c1971: v. 14, col. 1400 (from the Middle Ages onward, Shiloah referred to the village on the eastern slope of Kidron Valley; Ar. Silwān; a suburb of Jerusalem; incorporated into the Jerusalem municipal area after the 1967 Six Day War)
BGN. Jordan, 1971 (Silwān; PPLX; 31°46ʹN, 35°14ʹE)
ʻAtsor! Yeladim le-fanekha, Detsember 2010: t.p. (בסילוואן = be-Silṿan)
Not found inBGN. Gaz. of Israel, 1983; Columbia Lipp. gaz., 1966
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