Skip to content
EntityQ2915766· pop 14· linked from 222 articles

Also known as Tu'ran, Toor'an, Har Tir‘an, Turan, Tour'an

'''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

Settlement.name
Tur'an
Settlement.settlement_type
Local council (from 1959)
Settlement.translit_lang1
Hebrew
Settlement.translit_lang1_type1
ISO 259
Settlement.translit_lang1_info1
Ṭurˁan, Turˁan
Settlement.image_skyline
Abu_Baker_Sadic_Mosque_in_Tur%27an_(9).JPG
Settlement.image_caption
Abu Baker Sadic Mosque, Tur'an, 2011
Settlement.pushpin_map
Israel jezreel
Settlement.grid_name
Grid position
Settlement.grid_position
185/242 PAL
Settlement.subdivision_type2
District
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Northern
Settlement.unit_pref
dunam
Settlement.population_density_km2
auto
Settlement.blank_name_sec1
Name meaning
Settlement.blank_info_sec1
Possibly from "an outlet of water", Syriac form
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country

via Wikipedia infobox

~5 min read

Encyclopedic overview

10 sections
Contents
  • 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.

On the map

2 mapped locations