Dead Sea - بحيرة زغر
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Dead Sea; بحيرة زغر; Buḥaira Zughar; Baḥr Lūṭ; al-Buḥaira al-Muntina; al-Buḥaira al-Mayyita; al-Buḥaira al-Maqlūba; بحر لوط; البحيرة المنتنة; البحيرة الميتة; البحيرة المقلوبة
Between the steep and barren slopes of the "desert of Judah" and the mountainous land of Moab lies the Dead Sea, like a blue mirror 1150 feet below sea-level from north to south. Its length is about 50 miles, its midbreadth 8 miles and it has no exit.
ثم صورت الشام واجناده وجباله ومياهه من انهاره وبحره وما على ساحله من المدن وبحيرة طبرية وبحيرة زغر وتيه بنى اسرآئيل وموقعه منه
location: 31.577850349494952 35.52394311313131
identifier: https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5272
identifier: http://syriaca.org/place/5272
identifier: http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697709
Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal 8
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition P. Bearman
http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697709 Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places Roger Bagnall Richard Talbert Tom Elliott Lindsay Holman et al.