Yazur
Sign in to saveYazur (, ) was a Palestinian Arab town located east of Jaffa. Mentioned in 7th century BCE Assyrian texts, the village was a site of contestation between Muslims and Crusaders in the 12th-13th centuries.
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Yazur
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Travel and street photography made in Europe and Palestina, NINO F Scholten photographic print 03 059.tiff
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250
- Settlement.image_caption
- Maqam (shrine) of Imam ʿAli, in early 1920s, (presently housing the Sha'arei Zion Synagogue)
- Settlement.etymology
- Yazur
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Mandatory Palestine
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- A series of historical maps of the area around Yazur (click the buttons)
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 200
- Settlement.grid_name
- Palestine grid
- Settlement.grid_position
- 131/159
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Geopolitical entity
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Subdistrict
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Jaffa
- Settlement.established_title1
- Date of depopulation
- Settlement.established_date1
- 1 May 1948
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 4030
- Area
- 9.742
- Image
- Azor-S-691.jpg
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- Commons category
- Yazur
- native label
- يازور,
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1948-05-01
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13 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Iron Age
- Fatimid, Crusader, Ayyubid and Mamluk eras
- Ottoman era
- British Mandate era
- Lead-up to 1947-1948 war, and after
- The village today
- Persons associated with Yazur
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Yazur (, ) was a Palestinian Arab town located east of Jaffa. Mentioned in 7th century BCE Assyrian texts, the village was a site of contestation between Muslims and Crusaders in the 12th-13th centuries.
During the Fatimid period in Palestine, a number of important people were born in Yazur. In the modern era, the town was the birthplace of Ahmed Jibril, the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC).
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