Eilabun
Eilabun
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Local council (from 1973) | |
Hebrew transcription(s) | |
• ISO 259 | Eilaboun |
• Also spelled | Illabun (official) Eilaboun, Ailabun (unofficial) |
Coordinates: 32°50′18″N 35°24′03″E / 32.83833°N 35.40083°E | |
Grid position | 187/249 PAL |
Country | Israel |
District | Northern |
Area | |
• Total | 4,835 dunams (4.835 km2 or 1.867 sq mi) |
Population (2022)[1] | |
• Total | 5,799 |
• Density | 1,200/km2 (3,100/sq mi) |
Eilabun (
Etymology
According to the
History
Bronze Age to Mamluk period
Pottery remains from the Middle Bronze Age, Iron Age II, Persian, early Roman and from the Byzantine era have been excavated.[6] Rock-cut sarcophagi have been found to the west of the village.[7]
Eilabun is mentioned as one of the cities associated with one of the twenty-four
In 2013, excavations were conducted in Eilabun by Gilad Cinamon on behalf of the
Ottoman period
16th century
In 1517, the village was incorporated into the
19th century
According to a local tradition cited by Emanuel Hareuveni, Arab Christians from the neighbouring Christian village of Deir Hanna settled in Eilabun during the 19th century.[14]
In 1838, Aleibun was noted as a Christian village in the Esh Shagur district, which was located between
In 1875, the French explorer Victor Guérin found that the village had a population of about 100 Greek Christians, with a "humble" chapel. He noted an excellent water source, and remains (including columns) of old buildings.[16]
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as "a stone village, well built, containing about 100 Christians. It is situated on a ridge, surrounded by brushwood, with arable land in the valley. A good spring exists to the west of the village."[17]
A population list from about 1887 showed that Ailbun had about 210 inhabitants; all Catholic Christians.[18]
British Mandate
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Ailabun had a total population of 319, all Christian,[19] increasing in the 1931 census to 404, 32 Muslims and 372 Christians, in a total of 85 houses.[20]
In the 1945 statistics, the population comprised 530 Christians and 20 Muslims,[21] who owned a total of 11,190 dunams of land, while 3,522 dunams of land was public.[22] Of this, 1,209 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 2,187 for cereals,[23] while 18 dunams were built-up land.[24]
Israel
1948-49 war
2000s Christian-Druze conflict
On 25 April 2008, six people were injured, two of them sustaining serious wounds, in a brawl which broke out between Druze and Christians near Eilabun. The conflict ended following an official reconciliation between the Druze and Christians in 2009.
Eilabun in film
The Sons of Eilaboun (Arabic: أبناء عيلبون) is a 2007 documentary film by Palestinian artist and film maker Hisham Zreiq, that tells the story of the Eilabun massacre, which was committed by the Israeli army during Operation Hiram in October 1948.
Notable people
See also
References
- ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ עיילבון 2014
- ^ Eilabun (Israel) Dov Gutterman, FOTW
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 121
- ^ HaReuveni, 1999, p. 739
- ^ Feig, 2011, 'Elabbon, Final report
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 381
- ^ Urbach (1973), pp. 304–327; Degen (1973), pp. 302–303
- ^ Gosker, 2013, 'Elabbon
- ^ Cinamon, 2013, 'Elabbon
- ^ Israel Antiquities Authority, Excavators and Excavations Permit for Year 2013, Survey Permit # A-6783
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 189
- ^ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 Archived 2019-04-20 at the Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
- ^ הראובני, עמנואל (2010). לקסיקון ארץ ישראל: תקציר מיוחד מתוך ארץ ישראל ושכנותיה - אנציקלופדיה גאוגרפית, ארכאולוגית והיסטורית (in Hebrew). Israel: משרד החינוך. p. 739.
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, 2nd appendix, p. 133
- ^ Guérin, 1880, pp. 359-360
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 364
- ^ Schumacher, 1888, p. 174
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Tiberias, p. 39
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 82
- ^ Government of Palestine, Village Statistics 1945, p. 12
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 72
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 122
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 172
- ^ Motti Golani, Adel Manna, Two Sides of the Coin: Independence and Nakba 1948,[permanent dead link] Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation, 2011 p.119.
- ^ Morris, 2008,
- ^ Morris, 2004, pp. 479-480
- ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. 480
- ^ Benvenisti, 2000, pp. 153-154
- ^ a b c d Roffe-Ofir, Sharon (1995-06-20). "Druze, Christians clash near Galilee village - Israel News, Ynetnews". Ynetnews. Ynetnews.com. Retrieved 2013-03-26.
Bibliography
- Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- ISBN 0-520-21154-5.
- Cinamon, Gilad (2015-11-02). "'Elabbon Final Report" (127). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
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(help) - Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Degen, Rainer (1973). "An Inscription of the Twenty-Four Priestly Courses from the Yemen". Tarbiẕ (A Quarterly for Jewish Studies) (in Hebrew). 42 (3–4). Jerusalem: Mandel Institute for Jewish Studies: 302–303. JSTOR 23593539.
- Feig, Nurit (2011-03-06). "'Elabbon Final Report" (123). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
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(help) - Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
- Gosker, Joppe (2013-03-04). "'Elabbon Final Report" (125). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
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(help) - Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 3: Galilee, pt. 1. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
- Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- HaReuveni, Immanuel (1999). Lexicon of the Land of Israel (in Hebrew). Miskal - Yedioth Ahronoth Books and Chemed Books. ISBN 965-448-413-7.
- Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
- ISBN 9780300126969.
- Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century (PhD). Columbia University. Archived from the original on 2020-03-01. Retrieved 2017-11-02.
- Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
- Schumacher, G. (1888). "Population list of the Liwa of Akka". Quarterly Statement - Palestine Exploration Fund. 20: 169–191.
- JSTOR 23593540.
External links
- Eilaboun official Website
- Welcome To Eilabun
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 6: IAA, Wikimedia commons