Tur'an
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'''Tur'an''' (, ) is an Arab local council in the Northern District of Israel. It is located at the foot of Mount Tur'an and the Tur'an Valley, near the main road from Haifa to Tiberias, and about north of Nazareth. In it had a population of , most of whom are Israeli Arabs.
Key facts
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- Tur'an
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- Local council (from 1959)
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- Hebrew
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- ISO 259
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- Ṭurˁan, Turˁan
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- Abu_Baker_Sadic_Mosque_in_Tur%27an_(9).JPG
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- Abu Baker Sadic Mosque, Tur'an, 2011
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- Israel jezreel
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- Grid position
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- 185/242 PAL
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- District
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- Northern
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- dunam
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- auto
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- Name meaning
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- Possibly from "an outlet of water", Syriac form
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- Country
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Iron Age
- Classical Antiquity and Middle Ages
- Ottoman era
- British Mandate era
- State of Israel
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
'''Tur'an''' (, ) is an Arab local council in the Northern District of Israel. It is located at the foot of Mount Tur'an and the Tur'an Valley, near the main road from Haifa to Tiberias, and about north of Nazareth. In it had a population of , most of whom are Israeli Arabs.
==History==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tur'an” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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