Hunin
Sign in to saveHunin () was a Palestinian Arab village in the Galilee Panhandle part of Mandatory Palestine, close to the Lebanese border. It was the second largest village in the district of Safed, but was depopulated during the Nakba by Israeli forces in 1948. The inhabitants of this village were, similar to the inhabitants of Southern Lebanon, Shia Muslims.
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Place details
- Locality
- מועצה אזורית מבואות החרמון
- Region
- מחוז הצפון
- Country
- ישראל
- Population
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Iron Age I to Late Byzantine period
- Crusader and Mamluk periods
- Ottoman period
- British Mandate period
- 1948 and aftermath
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- References
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Hunin () was a Palestinian Arab village in the Galilee Panhandle part of Mandatory Palestine, close to the Lebanese border. It was the second largest village in the district of Safed, but was depopulated during the Nakba by Israeli forces in 1948. The inhabitants of this village were, similar to the inhabitants of Southern Lebanon, Shia Muslims.
==History== ===Iron Age I to Late Byzantine period=== The first settlement at the site dates back to Iron Age I (1200-1000 BCE), followed by renewed habitation from the Persian period (586-332 BCE) until the latter part of the Byzantine period (5th-6th centuries CE).
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