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Wadi Ara, Haifa
Wadi Ara (Arabic: وادي عارة) was a Palestinian village located 38.5 km south of the city of Haifa. It is named after the nearby stream that is known in Arabic as Wadi 'Ara. The village was particularly small with a population of 230 and a land area of approximately 9,800 dunums.
At En Esur (Hebrew) or 'Ein Asawir (Arabic), about 1km NW of Wadi Ara, a remarkably large settlement from the Early Chalcolithic period, some 7,000 years ago, has come to light. Its size (400 dunams or 400,000 m²) and some elements of urbanisation might point to a proto-city, at a much earlier time than though possible in the region.
Above the Chalcolithic settlement, a large walled Early Bronze Age city of 650,000 m² (160 acres) covered the site, with up to 6,000 inhabitants – another unparalleled finding for the Southern Levant. Tell el-Asawir, part of the wider En Esur site, contains burial caves dating from the fourth to the second millennium BCE. The press release spoke of "the largest Bronze Age necropolis in the world".
Ceramics from the late Roman, Byzantine, and early Muslim and Middle ages have been found at Khirbet ez-Zebadneh.
The Muslim geographer Ibn Khurdadhbi (d. 912) described it as a stopping place on the road between al-Lajjun and Qalansuwa.
In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described it a small hamlet known as Khurbet ez Zebadneh.
During the British Mandate of Palestine, the village was classified as a hamlet in the Palestine Index Gazetteer. In the 1922 census of Palestine Wadi Arah had a population of 68; all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 81; still all Muslim, in a total of 18 houses.
The moshav of Ein Iron was built in 1934 on what were traditionally village lands.
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Wadi Ara, Haifa
Wadi Ara (Arabic: وادي عارة) was a Palestinian village located 38.5 km south of the city of Haifa. It is named after the nearby stream that is known in Arabic as Wadi 'Ara. The village was particularly small with a population of 230 and a land area of approximately 9,800 dunums.
At En Esur (Hebrew) or 'Ein Asawir (Arabic), about 1km NW of Wadi Ara, a remarkably large settlement from the Early Chalcolithic period, some 7,000 years ago, has come to light. Its size (400 dunams or 400,000 m²) and some elements of urbanisation might point to a proto-city, at a much earlier time than though possible in the region.
Above the Chalcolithic settlement, a large walled Early Bronze Age city of 650,000 m² (160 acres) covered the site, with up to 6,000 inhabitants – another unparalleled finding for the Southern Levant. Tell el-Asawir, part of the wider En Esur site, contains burial caves dating from the fourth to the second millennium BCE. The press release spoke of "the largest Bronze Age necropolis in the world".
Ceramics from the late Roman, Byzantine, and early Muslim and Middle ages have been found at Khirbet ez-Zebadneh.
The Muslim geographer Ibn Khurdadhbi (d. 912) described it as a stopping place on the road between al-Lajjun and Qalansuwa.
In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described it a small hamlet known as Khurbet ez Zebadneh.
During the British Mandate of Palestine, the village was classified as a hamlet in the Palestine Index Gazetteer. In the 1922 census of Palestine Wadi Arah had a population of 68; all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 81; still all Muslim, in a total of 18 houses.
The moshav of Ein Iron was built in 1934 on what were traditionally village lands.
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