Eilabun, the Glossary
Eilabun (عيلبون Ailabun, עַילַבּוּן) is an Arab Christian village located in the Beit Netofa Valley around south-west of Safed in northern Galilee between Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee.[1]
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64 relations: Achaemenid Empire, Acre, Israel, Akçe, Arab Christians, Arab citizens of Israel, Arab Liberation Army, Arab localities in Israel, Arabic, Beit Netofa Valley, Blue Line (withdrawal line), Byzantine Empire, Chapel, Christianity in Israel, Columbia University, Column, Crocker & Brewster, Defter, Deir Hanna, Districts of Israel, DJE 23, Dunam, Eilabun massacre, Ephraim Urbach, Galilee, Golani Brigade, Greek Orthodox Church, Hana Sweid, Hisham Zreiq, ISO 259, Israel, Israel Antiquities Authority, List of sovereign states, Local council (Israel), Mamluk Sultanate, Mandatory Palestine, Maximos V Hakim, Muslims, Nabi Shu'ayb, Nahiyah, Nazareth, Northern District (Israel), Ottoman Empire, Palestine (region), Palestine Exploration Fund, Palestine grid, Palestinian Christians, PEF Survey of Palestine, Priestly divisions, Roman Empire, Safed, ... Expand index (14 more) »
- Arab Christian communities in Israel
- District of Tiberias
Achaemenid Empire
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.
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Acre, Israel
Acre, known locally as Akko (עַכּוֹ) and Akka (عكّا), is a city in the coastal plain region of the Northern District of Israel. Eilabun and Acre, Israel are Arab Christian communities in Israel.
Akçe
The akçe or akça (also spelled akche, akcheh; آقچه;,, in Europe known as asper or aspre) was a silver coin which was the chief monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire.
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Arab Christians
Arab Christians (translit) are ethnic Arabs, Arab nationals, or Arabic speakers, who follow Christianity.
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Arab citizens of Israel
The Arab citizens of Israel (Arab Israelis or Israeli Arabs) are the country's largest ethnic minority.
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Arab Liberation Army
The Arab Liberation Army (ALA; جيش الإنقاذ العربي Jaysh al-Inqadh al-Arabi), also translated as Arab Salvation Army or Arab Rescue Army (ARA), was an army of volunteers from Arab countries led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji.
See Eilabun and Arab Liberation Army
Arab localities in Israel
Arab localities in Israel include all population centers with a 50% or higher Arab population in Israel.
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Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
Beit Netofa Valley
The Beit Netofa Valley, or Sahl al-Battuf (בקעת בית נטופה, Arabic: سهل البطوف) is a valley in the Lower Galilee region of Israel, midway between Tiberias and Haifa.
See Eilabun and Beit Netofa Valley
Blue Line (withdrawal line)
The Blue Line is a demarcation line dividing Lebanon from Israel and the Golan Heights.
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Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Chapel
A chapel (from cappella) is a Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small.
Christianity in Israel
Christianity (Natsrút; al-Masīḥiyya) is the third largest religion in Israel, after Judaism and Islam.
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Columbia University
Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.
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Column
A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below.
Crocker & Brewster
Crocker & Brewster (1818–1876) was a leading publishing house in Boston, Massachusetts, during its 58-year existence.
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Defter
A defter was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire.
Deir Hanna
Deir Hanna (دير حنا, דֵיר חַנָּא) is a local council in the Northern District of Israel, located on the hills of the Lower Galilee, southeast of Acre. Eilabun and Deir Hanna are Arab Christian communities in Israel, Arab localities in Israel and local councils in Northern District (Israel).
Districts of Israel
There are six main administrative districts of Israel, known in Hebrew as (מְחוֹזוֹת; sing. מָחוֹז) and in Arabic as.
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DJE 23
DJE 23 is a Hebrew inscription found in the village of Bayt Hadir, 15 km southeast of Sanaa, Yemen.
Dunam
A dunam (Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: دونم; dönüm; דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount of land that could be ploughed by a team of oxen in a day.
Eilabun massacre
The Eilabun massacre was committed by soldiers of Israel Defense Forces during Operation Hiram on 30 October 1948.
See Eilabun and Eilabun massacre
Ephraim Urbach
Ephraim Urbach (Hebrew: אפרים אלימלך אורבך) (born 1912 – 3 July 1991) was a distinguished scholar of Judaism.
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Galilee
Galilee (hagGālīl; Galilaea; al-jalīl) is a region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon.
Golani Brigade
The 1st "Golani" Brigade (חֲטִיבַת גּוֹלָנִי, Hativat Golani) is an Israeli military infantry brigade.
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Greek Orthodox Church
Greek Orthodox Church (Greek: Ἑλληνορθόδοξη Ἐκκλησία, Ellinorthódoxi Ekklisía) is a term that can refer to any one of three classes of Christian churches, each associated in some way with Greek Christianity, Levantine Arabic-speaking Christians or more broadly the rite used in the Eastern Roman Empire.
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Hana Sweid
Hana Sweid (حنا سويد, חנא סוייד; also spelt Hanna Swaid, born 27 March 1955) is an Israeli Arab politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Hadash from 2006 to 2015.
Hisham Zreiq
Hisham Zreiq (هشامزريق, הישאם זרייק; born 9 February 1968 in Nazareth), also spelled Zrake, is a Palestinian-Israeli Independent filmmaker, poet, animator and visual artist.
ISO 259
ISO 259 is a series of international standards for the romanization of Hebrew characters into Latin characters, dating to 1984, with updated ISO 259-2 (a simplification, disregarding several vowel signs, 1994) and ISO 259-3 (Phonemic Conversion, 1999).
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA, רשות העתיקות rashut ha-'atiqot; داﺌرة الآثار, before 1990, the Israel Department of Antiquities) is an independent Israeli governmental authority responsible for enforcing the 1978 Law of Antiquities.
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List of sovereign states
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.
See Eilabun and List of sovereign states
Local council (Israel)
Local councils (Hebrew plural; singular: מוֹעָצָה מְקוֹמִית; label; singular: مجلس محلّي) are one of the three types of local government found in Israel, the other two being cities and regional councils.
See Eilabun and Local council (Israel)
Mamluk Sultanate
The Mamluk Sultanate (translit), also known as Mamluk Egypt or the Mamluk Empire, was a state that ruled Egypt, the Levant and the Hejaz from the mid-13th to early 16th centuries.
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Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine was a geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine.
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Maximos V Hakim
Maximos V Hakim (ماكسيموس الخامس حكيم; May 18, 1908 – June 29, 2001) was elected Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, and Alexandria and Jerusalem of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in 1967 and served until 2000.
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Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
Nabi Shu'ayb
Nabi Shuʿayb (also transliterated Neby Shoaib, Nabi Shuaib, or Nebi Shu'eib, meaning "the Prophet Shuaib"), known in English as Jethro's tomb, is a religious shrine west of Tiberias, in the Lower Galilee region of Israel, containing the purported tomb of prophet Shuayb, identified with the biblical Jethro, Moses' father-in-law.
Nahiyah
A nāḥiyah (نَاحِيَة, plural nawāḥī نَوَاحِي), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns.
Nazareth
Nazareth (النَّاصِرَة|an-Nāṣira; נָצְרַת|Nāṣəraṯ; Naṣrath) is the largest city in the Northern District of Israel. Eilabun and Nazareth are Arab Christian communities in Israel and Arab localities in Israel.
Northern District (Israel)
The Northern District (translit; translit) is one of Israel's six administrative districts.
See Eilabun and Northern District (Israel)
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
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Palestine (region)
The region of Palestine, also known as Historic Palestine, is a geographical area in West Asia.
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Palestine Exploration Fund
The Palestine Exploration Fund is a British society based in London.
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Palestine grid
The Palestine grid was the geographic coordinate system used by the Survey Department of Palestine.
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Palestinian Christians
Palestinian Christians (مَسِيحِيُّون فِلَسْطِينِيُّون) are a religious community of the Palestinian people consisting of those who identify as Christians, including those who are cultural Christians in addition to those who actively adhere to Christianity.
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PEF Survey of Palestine
The PEF Survey of Palestine was a series of surveys carried out by the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) between 1872 and 1877 for the completed Survey of Western Palestine and in 1880 for the soon abandoned Survey of Eastern Palestine.
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Priestly divisions
The priestly divisions or sacerdotal courses (מִשְׁמָר mishmar) are the groups into which Jewish priests were divided for the purposes of their service in the Temple in Jerusalem.
See Eilabun and Priestly divisions
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Safed
Safed (also known as Tzfat; צְפַת, Ṣəfaṯ; صفد, Ṣafad) is a city in the Northern District of Israel.
Safed Sanjak
Safed Sanjak (سنجق صفد; Safed Sancağı) was a sanjak (district) of Damascus Eyalet (Ottoman province of Damascus) in 1517–1660, after which it became part of the Sidon Eyalet (Ottoman province of Sidon).
Sarcophagus
A sarcophagus (sarcophagi or sarcophaguses) is a coffin, most commonly carved in stone, and usually displayed above ground, though it may also be buried.
Sea of Galilee
The Sea of Galilee (יָם כִּנֶּרֶת, Judeo-Aramaic: יַמּא דטבריא, גִּנֵּיסַר, بحيرة طبريا), also called Lake Tiberias or Kinneret, is a freshwater lake in Israel.
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Shefa-Amr
Shefa-Amr or Shfar'am (شفاعمرو, Šafāʻamr, שְׁפַרְעָם, Šəfarʻam) is an Arab city in the Northern District of Israel. Eilabun and Shefa-Amr are Arab Christian communities in Israel and Arab localities in Israel.
Synagogue
A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans.
The Sons of Eilaboun
The Sons of Eilaboun (أبناء عيلبون) is a 2007 documentary film by Palestinian artist and film maker Hisham Zreiq (Zrake), that tells the story of the Eilabun massacre, which was committed by the Israeli army during Operation Hiram in October 1948.
See Eilabun and The Sons of Eilaboun
Tiberias
Tiberias (טְבֶרְיָה,; Ṭabariyyā) is an Israeli city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee.
University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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Victor Guérin
Victor Guérin (15 September 1821 – 21 September 1890) was a French intellectual, explorer and amateur archaeologist.
Village Statistics, 1945
Village Statistics, 1945 was a joint survey work prepared by the Government Office of Statistics and the Department of Lands of the British Mandate Government for the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine which acted in early 1946.
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Walter W. Müller
Walter Wilhelm Müller (born 26 September 1933 in Weipert in the Ore Mountains) is a German specialist in the field of ancient South Arabia and Semitic epigraphy.
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1922 census of Palestine
The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922.
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1931 census of Palestine
The 1931 census of Palestine was the second census carried out by the authorities of Mandatory Palestine.
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1948 Arab–Israeli War
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war.
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See also
Arab Christian communities in Israel
- Abbas, Haifa
- Abu Snan
- Acre, Israel
- Arraba, Israel
- Bi'ina
- Carmel City
- Christian Quarter
- Deir Hanna
- Eilabun
- Fassuta
- German Colony, Jerusalem
- Hadar HaCarmel
- Haifa
- Hurfeish
- I'billin
- Isfiya
- Jadeidi-Makr
- Jaffa
- Jerusalem
- Jish
- Kafr Kanna
- Kafr Yasif
- Kisra-Sumei
- Lod
- Ma'alot-Tarshiha
- Maghar, Israel
- Mi'ilya
- Muqeible
- Nazareth
- Nof HaGalil
- Old Jaffa
- Peki'in
- Rameh
- Ramla
- Ras al-Ein
- Reineh
- Sakhnin
- Shefa-Amr
- Talbiya
- Tur'an
- Wadi Nisnas
- Yafa an-Naseriyye
District of Tiberias
- Al-Dalhamiyya
- Al-Hamma, Tiberias
- Al-Manara, Palestine
- Al-Manshiyya, Tiberias
- Al-Mansura, Tiberias
- Al-Nuqayb
- Al-Samakiyya
- Al-Samra
- Al-Shajara, Palestine
- Awlam
- Eilabun
- Ghuwayr Abu Shusha
- Hadatha
- Hittin
- Kafr Sabt
- Khirbat al-Wa'ra al-Sawda'
- Lubya
- Ma'dhar
- Nasir ad-Din, Palestine
- Nimrin
- Samakh, Tiberias
- Tabgha
- Tiberias Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine
- Ubeidiya, Tiberias
- Yaquq
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilabun
Also known as 'Ailabun, 'Aleibun, Eilaboun, Illaboun, Illabun.
, Safed Sanjak, Sarcophagus, Sea of Galilee, Shefa-Amr, Synagogue, The Sons of Eilaboun, Tiberias, University of California Press, Victor Guérin, Village Statistics, 1945, Walter W. Müller, 1922 census of Palestine, 1931 census of Palestine, 1948 Arab–Israeli War.