لجون
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Lajjun or Lejjun (, el-Lejjūn) was a large Palestinian Arab village located northwest of Jenin and south of the remains of the biblical city of Megiddo. The Israeli kibbutz of Megiddo was built 600 metres north-east of the depopulated village on the hill called Dhahrat ed-Dar starting from 1949.
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Key facts
- Settlement.unit_pref
- dunam
- Settlement.name
- Lajjun
- Settlement.native_name
- اللجّون
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.other_name
- al-Lajjun, el-Lejjun
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:Photo from the Arab village of Lajjun, 1924. Columns street half-buried and surrounded by the huts (Rockefeller Museum).jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 200
- Settlement.image_caption
- Lajjun, 1924. Half-buried Roman or Byzantine columns and modern huts (Rockefeller Museum).
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- Mandatory Palestine
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- Location within Mandatory Palestine
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- A series of historical maps of the area around Lajjun (click the buttons)
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- 200
- Settlement.grid_name
- Palestine grid
- Settlement.grid_position
- 167/220
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Geopolitical entity
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Mandatory Palestine
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- Subdistrict
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Jenin
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Mandatory Palestine
- Located in
- Jenin Subdistrict
- Population
- 1103
- Elevation
- 155
- Image
- مبنى قديم اللجون 2.JPG
- Significant event
- forced displacement
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- Commons category
- Lajjun
- native label
- اللجّون
- structure replaces
- Legio
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2 mapped locations