The Manasseh Hills[1] or hill country of Manasseh,[2] directly derived from Hebrew: Menashe Heights (Hebrew: רָמוֹת מְנַשֶּׁה, romanized: Ramot Menashe, lit. 'Manasseh Heights'), called Balad ar-Ruha in Arabic, meaning "Land of Winds",[3] is a geographical region in northern Israel, located on the Carmel Range, between Mount Carmel and Mount Amir/Umm al-Fahm.
The hill country of Manasseh or Manasseh hill country, sometimes fully capitalised,[4] is named for its location within the allotment of the biblical Tribe of Manasseh, itself named after its biblical forefather, Manasses or Manasseh.
Geography
Ramot Menashe woodlands
While Manasseh hill country (Ramat Menashe) is part of the mountain range, it is just 200 m above sea level on average, and peaks at 400 m. The plateau is bordered by the Jezreel Valley to the northeast, Wadi Milh (the Yokne'am Stream[5]) to the northwest, Wadi Ara to the southeast, and the Nadiv Valley to the southwest.[3]
The Manasseh Hill Country , known in Hebrew as Ramot Menashe, was officially added to UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserves in 2011. The region was credited with encompassing "a mosaic of ecological systems that represent the Mediterranean Basin's version of the global evergreen sclerophyllous forests, woodlands and scrub ecosystem types."[6]
Important Bird Area
A 2,500 ha tract of agricultural country with oak trees, on the western slopes of Mount Carmel, some 5 km from the coast, has been recognised as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a population of lesser kestrels, with some 40 breeding pairs estimated in 1991.[7]
^Gilboa, Ayelet (2014). Steiner, Margreet L.; Killebrew, Ann E. (eds.). The southern Levant (Cisjordan) during the Iron Age period. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant: c. 8000-332 BCE. OUP Oxford. p. 624-648 [633]. ISBN9780191662546. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
^Rasmussen, Carl G. (2014). Zondervan Atlas of the Bible. Zondervan Academic. ISBN9780310521266. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
^ abcZev Vilnay (1980). "Ramat Menashe". Ariel Encyclopedia (in Hebrew). Vol. 8. Israel: Am Oved. p. 7585.
^Benvenisti, Meron (2000). Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948. University of California Press. p. 52. ISBN9780520928824. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
^Rinat, Zafrir (4 July 2011). "UNESCO recognizes Ramot Menashe area as 'Biosphere Reserve'". Haaretz. Retrieved 5 July 2011. Efforts to preserve nature and open spaces in Israel enjoyed yesterday international recognition, with UNESCO affording the area of Ramot Menashe the title of "Biosphere Reserve," adding it to the organization's Man and the Biosphere program.
^"Ramot Menashe". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2021. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
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