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Meiron (Arabic: ميرون, romanized: Mayrūn; Hebrew: מירון הקדומה, romanized: Merón haKdumá) was a Palestinian village, located 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) west of Safad. Associated with the ancient Canaanite city of Merom, excavations at the site have found extensive remains from the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods. The remains include a 3rd-century synagogue, attesting to Meiron's prominence as a local religious centre.
From the 13th century CE onward, Meiron was a popular site for Jewish pilgrims. During Ottoman rule in Palestine, the population fluctuated considerably, with at least two-thirds of the population being Arab Muslims although landownership was split almost evenly between Arabs and Jews. The village was depopulated in two phases during the 1948 Arab–Israeli war. In 1949, demobilized soldiers founded the moshav of Meron in the region.
Archaeological excavation on Mount Meron started in the 1920s. Substantial remains from the Roman period were found but only meager findings from earlier times. The theory that Ein Meron spring at the foot of the mountain could be the "waters of Merom" of Joshua 11:5 and Joshua 11:7 was thus hard to support. In the 1950s, Israeli archaeologist Yohanan Aharoni rejected the notion of a pre-Roman settlement at Meron. In the decade up to 2005 however, new findings seemed to indicate that the site atop Mount Meron was inhabited continuously from the Chalcolithic until after the Roman period. This reinvigorated the debate over the identification of Merom and its "waters". American archaeologists Eric M. and Carol L. Meyers excavated ancient Meiron in 1971–72, 1974–75, and 1977.
The ancient site of Meron stood on a high hill on the eastern side of Mount Meron, above (north of) Nahal Meron ('Meron Stream') and the Meron spring, its remains being found at the summit of the hill and on its slopes.
Flint findings indicate human activity at the site during the Middle Paleolithic period, but as of 2019 archaeologists consider that settlement started there during the Chalcolithic and it became continuous from that period and up until the present day.
A Jewish settlement from part of the Roman and Byzantine periods, or Mishnaic (c. 10-220 CE) and Talmudic periods (3rd to 6th centuries) in Jewish terms, was excavated in the 1970s.
During the Late Ottoman period, Oliphant (1887) described a mixed Jewish and Muslim settlement, and in the British Mandate it was an Arab village (Khalidi 1992).
During a 2017 excavation above Nahal Meron on the southern slope of the hill of ancient Meron, surface finds of flint implements and debitage hardened the conclusion of earlier work that human activity took place at the Meron site very early on, namely in the Middle Palaeolithic, and again in either the Chalcolithic period or the Bronze Age. Previous archaeological work had established that settlement at the site of ancient Meron had begun during the Chalcolithic period and had been continuous since.
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Meiron (Arabic: ميرون, romanized: Mayrūn; Hebrew: מירון הקדומה, romanized: Merón haKdumá) was a Palestinian village, located 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) west of Safad. Associated with the ancient Canaanite city of Merom, excavations at the site have found extensive remains from the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods. The remains include a 3rd-century synagogue, attesting to Meiron's prominence as a local religious centre.
From the 13th century CE onward, Meiron was a popular site for Jewish pilgrims. During Ottoman rule in Palestine, the population fluctuated considerably, with at least two-thirds of the population being Arab Muslims although landownership was split almost evenly between Arabs and Jews. The village was depopulated in two phases during the 1948 Arab–Israeli war. In 1949, demobilized soldiers founded the moshav of Meron in the region.
Archaeological excavation on Mount Meron started in the 1920s. Substantial remains from the Roman period were found but only meager findings from earlier times. The theory that Ein Meron spring at the foot of the mountain could be the "waters of Merom" of Joshua 11:5 and Joshua 11:7 was thus hard to support. In the 1950s, Israeli archaeologist Yohanan Aharoni rejected the notion of a pre-Roman settlement at Meron. In the decade up to 2005 however, new findings seemed to indicate that the site atop Mount Meron was inhabited continuously from the Chalcolithic until after the Roman period. This reinvigorated the debate over the identification of Merom and its "waters". American archaeologists Eric M. and Carol L. Meyers excavated ancient Meiron in 1971–72, 1974–75, and 1977.
The ancient site of Meron stood on a high hill on the eastern side of Mount Meron, above (north of) Nahal Meron ('Meron Stream') and the Meron spring, its remains being found at the summit of the hill and on its slopes.
Flint findings indicate human activity at the site during the Middle Paleolithic period, but as of 2019 archaeologists consider that settlement started there during the Chalcolithic and it became continuous from that period and up until the present day.
A Jewish settlement from part of the Roman and Byzantine periods, or Mishnaic (c. 10-220 CE) and Talmudic periods (3rd to 6th centuries) in Jewish terms, was excavated in the 1970s.
During the Late Ottoman period, Oliphant (1887) described a mixed Jewish and Muslim settlement, and in the British Mandate it was an Arab village (Khalidi 1992).
During a 2017 excavation above Nahal Meron on the southern slope of the hill of ancient Meron, surface finds of flint implements and debitage hardened the conclusion of earlier work that human activity took place at the Meron site very early on, namely in the Middle Palaeolithic, and again in either the Chalcolithic period or the Bronze Age. Previous archaeological work had established that settlement at the site of ancient Meron had begun during the Chalcolithic period and had been continuous since.
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