Ghoraniyeh

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Ghoraniyeh or El Ghorahiyeh is a crossing (ford) by the Jordan River south of Wadi Nimrin on the left bankPower, E. “THE SITE OF THE PENTAPOLIS.” Biblica, vol. 11, no. 1, GBPress- Gregorian Biblical Press, 1930, pp. 23–62, {{JSTOR|42613807}}, p.35 where it joins Wadi an Nuway'imah (Nuei'ameh, Nu'eima, etc.) on the right bank.Trelawney Saunders, An Introduction to the Survey of Western Palestine: Its Waterways, Plains & Highlands, 1881, [https://books.google.com/books?id=9YlCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA169 p. 169] (file @ Commons) During the Ottoman times there was a bridge, destroyed during the World War I by the retreating Ottomans. During the war it was an important bridgehead.

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