Golan Heights

Golan Heights هضبة الجولان רמת הגולן
Disputed territory
Location of the Golan Heights
Coordinates: 32°58′54″N 35°44′58″E / 32.98167°N 35.74944°E / 32.98167; 35.74944
Status	Internationally recognized as Syrian territory occupied by Israel; see Status of the Golan Heights.
Area
• Total	1,800 km2 (700 sq mi)
• Occupied by Israel	1,200 km2 (500 sq mi)
• Controlled by Syrian Arab Republic (including de jure 235 km2 (91 sq mi) UNDOF control zone)	600 km2 (200 sq mi)
Highest elevation	2,814 m (9,232 ft)
Lowest elevation	−212 m (−696 ft)
Population of Israeli-occupied area.
• Total	40,000–49,700
• Arabs	20,000–25,700
• Israeli Jewish settlers	20,000–22,300
Time zone	UTC+2
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3

The Golan Heights is a plateau and a disputed land between Syria and Israel, which captured the area in the Six Day War of 1967. The United Nations has voted to ask Israel to pull its troops out of the Golan Heights. Syria and Israel still have not signed a peace treaty from that war, mostly because of the issue of the Golan. They almost reached a peace deal but they could not agree on where to draw the line, and what Syria would have to do in return. The Golan Heights and Mount Hermon was annexed by Israel in 1981. On the western edge of the Golan Heights is a range of dormant and extinct volcanos.

In January 2013, the Israeli government said it planned to build a wall along the eastern edges of the Golan Heights, on its ceasefire line with Syria.

Maps

• 
  Map of the Golan Heights. Sites on the map in blue are Israeli settlements; and sites in black are Syrian villages.
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  A map of the Golan Hights from a satellite.
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  A map of current and historical borders and ceasefire lines in the Golan Heights (from 1923)

References

Notes

1. ↑ The United States recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan in March 2019. The US is the first country to recognize the Golan as Israeli territory, while the rest of the international community still considers it Syrian territory occupied by Israel

Other websites

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Golan Heights.

Wikivoyage has a travel guide about: Golan Heights

• Israeli community portal Archived 2014-08-06 at the Wayback Machine
• The Syrian Golan Archived 2010-10-08 at the Wayback Machine – Permanent Mission of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations
• Gaulonitis in the Jewish Encyclopedia (1906)
• What is the dispute over the Golan Heights? Archived 2013-08-24 at the Wayback Machine
• A View From Damascus: Internal Refugees From Golan’s 244 Destroyed Syrian Villages from Washington Report

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