Hawsha
Sign in to saveHawsha (, Hǔsheh, also Husha) was an Arab village established in 1880 by Maghrebi immigrants of Algerian origin, built on ruins of the ancient Jewish town Usha. The place is located east of Haifa, about above sea level.
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Vinony files it under Arab villages depopulated prior to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, District of Haifa and Islamic shrines in Israel.
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- Locality
- מועצה אזורית זבולון
- Region
- מחוז חיפה
- Country
- ישראל
- Population
- 1,012
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- Country
- Mandatory Palestine
- Located in
- Haifa Subdistrict
- Population
- 400
- Image
- Nabi Hushan shrine in the Hawsha cemetery.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Location
- History
- Israelite city: unlikely
- Roman and Byzantine-period Jewish city
- Crusader domain
- Ottoman period: shrine, ancient ruins, well
- British Mandate village
- 1948 war and aftermath
- Footnotes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Hawsha (, Hǔsheh, also Husha) was an Arab village established in 1880 by Maghrebi immigrants of Algerian origin, built on ruins of the ancient Jewish town Usha. The place is located east of Haifa, about above sea level.
During the late Roman period, Hawsha was the site of the ancient Jewish town of Usha, which was the seat of the Sanhedrin. Ruins on the site include ancient mosaics and tombs. The village had a Maqam (shrine) for Nabi Hushan.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hawsha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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