Geshur
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For the Israeli settlement, see Geshur, Golan Heights. For the village in Iran, see Geshur, Iran.
Geshur (Biblical Hebrew: גְּשׁוּר, romanized: Gəšūr)[1] was a territory in the ancient Levant mentioned in the early books of the Hebrew Bible and possibly in several other ancient sources, located in the region of the modern-day Golan Heights.[2] Some scholars suggest it was established as an independent city-state from the middle of the tenth century BCE, maintaining its autonomy for about a century until it was annexed in the third quarter of the ninth century by Hazael, the king of Aram-Damascus.[3]