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Mount Zion (Jerusalem)

Mount Zion Mount Zion is a historic hill immediately south of Jerusalem’s Old City, rising to approximately 774 meters (2,540 feet) above sea level. Known in Hebrew as Har Tsiyon and in Arabic as Jabal Sahyoun, the hill forms the southern portion of Jerusalem’s Western Hill and overlooks the Hinnom Valley and some of the …

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Mount Zion (Lake County, Colorado)

Rising immediately north of Leadville in central Colorado, Mount Zion is a 12,126-foot (3,696-meter) summit on the southern portion of Chicago Ridge, near the northern end of the Mosquito Range and the boundary between the Tenmile-Mosquito high country and the upper Arkansas River Valley. Mount Zion is easy to overlook beside Colorado’s famous fourteeners. Mount …

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