Golan Heights & Syria-Israel DMZ

When

since Sep 1961

Kind

Territorial claim

Coordinates

33.00° N, 35.75° E

Region

4

Significance

12

Significance index

3

Significance state1

6

Significance state2

6

Tangible significance

6

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Syrian plateau occupied by Israel

The Golan Heights, or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau at the southwest corner of Syria, the majority of which has been occupied and administered by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War. It is bordered by the Yarmouk River in the south, the Sea of Galilee and Hula Valley in the west, the Anti-Lebanon Mountains with Mount Hermon in the north and Wadi Raqqad (Ruqqad) in the east, with an alternative definition havi…

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