Alexandrium
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| Regions | Judea |
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| Founded | 1st Century BC |
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| ID | 2969495 |
About Alexandrium
Alexandreion, or Alexandrium, called Sartaba in the Mishna and Talmud and Qarn Sartaba in Arabic, was an ancient hilltop fortress constructed by the Hasmoneans between Scythopolis and Jerusalem on a pointy barren hill towering over the Jordan Valley from the west.