Kedesh

Kedesh (alternate spellings: Qedesh, Cadesh, Cydessa) was an ancient Canaanite and later Israelite settlement in Upper Galilee, mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. Its remains are located in Tel Kedesh, northeast of the modern Kibbutz Malkiya in Israel on the Israeli-Lebanese border.

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Ancient site.name: Tel Kedesh
Ancient site.alternate_name: Cydessa
Ancient site.image: File:תל קדש 2.jpeg
Ancient site.caption: Tel Kedesh
Ancient site.map_type: Israel#Israel northeast
Ancient site.map_size: 250
Ancient site.location: Northern District, Israel
Ancient site.region: Upper Galilee
Ancient site.type: Settlement
Ancient site.condition: In ruins
Ancient site.public_access: yes
Settlement.image_skyline: קדש נתפלי - מראה קדש נפתלי בגליל העליון-JNF027645.jpeg
Settlement.caption: Qadas 1939
Settlement.name: Qadas
Settlement.native_name: قدس
Settlement.native_name_lang: ar
Settlement.other_name: Kades, Kadas, Cadasa
Settlement.settlement_type: Village

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History
Early Bronze Age
Iron Age
Assyrian period
Persian period
Hellenistic period
Roman period
Kedesh of Naphtali
Excavation project at Tel Kedesh
Middle Ages
Ottoman era
British Mandate era
1948 war, and aftermath
Other
See also
References
Bibliography
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The settlement is first documented in the Book of Joshua as a Canaanite citadel conquered by the Israelites and designated as a Levitical city and City of Refuge. Jewish tradition holds that Deborah, Barak and Jael were buried near Kedesh.