Lajjun

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This article is about the Palestinian village. For the nearby archaeological site, see Legio.
Not to be confused with the al-Lajjun or el-Lejjun archaeological site in Karak Governorate, Jordan.
Lajjun
اللجّون
Legio, al-Lajjun, el-Lejjun
Lajjun, 1924. Roman or Byzantine columns and modern huts (Rockefeller Museum).
Lajjun, 1924. Roman or Byzantine columns and modern huts (Rockefeller Museum).
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Lajjun (click the buttons)
Jenin
Date of depopulationMay 30, 1948[1]
Area
 • Total77,242 dunams (77.242 km2 or 29.823 sq mi)
Population
 (1948)
 • Total1,280
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesKibbutz Megiddo[2]

Lajjun (

Arab village located 16 kilometers (9.9 mi) northwest of Jenin and 1 kilometer (0.62 mi) south of the remains of the biblical city of Megiddo. The Israeli kibbutz of Megiddo, Israel
was built 600 metres north-east of the depopulated village on the hill called Dhahrat ed Dar from 1949.

Named after an early

1948 Arab-Israeli War, when it was captured by Israel. Most of its residents subsequently fled and settled in the nearby town of Umm al-Fahm
.

Etymology

The name Lajjun derives from the Roman name Legio, referring to the Roman legion stationed there. In the 3rd century, the town was renamed Maximianopolis ("City of Maximian") by Diocletian in honor of Maximian, his co-emperor,[3] but the inhabitants continued to use the old name. Under the Caliphate, the name was Arabicized into al-Lajjûn or el-Lejjûn,[4] which was used until the Crusaders conquered Palestine in 1099. The Crusaders restored the Roman name Legio, and introduced new names such as Ligum and le Lyon, but after the town was reconquered by the Muslims in 1187,[5] al-Lajjun once again became its name.

Geography

Modern Lajjun was built on the slopes of three hills, roughly 135–175 meters above sea level,[6] located on the southwestern edge of the Jezreel Valley (Marj ibn Amer). Jenin, the entire valley, and Nazareth range are visible from it. The village was located on both the banks of a stream, a tributary of Kishon River. The stream flows to the north and then east over 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) before arriving at Lajjun. That section is called Wadi es-Sitt (valley of the lady) in Arabic,[7] The northern quarter was built in close proximity to a number of springs, including 'Ayn al Khalil, 'Ayn Nasir, 'Ayn Sitt Leila, and 'Ayn Jumma, collectively known as 'Uyun Seil Lajjun.[8] The eastern quarter was next to 'Ayn al Hajja.[9] From Lajjun onward the stream is called Wadi al-Lajjun in Arabic.[10][11] In Hebrew, the Israeli Government Naming Committee decided in 1958 to use the name Nahal Qeni (Hebrew: נַחַל קֵינִי) for the entire length of the stream, based on its ancient identification (see below).[12] Lajjun is bordered by Tall al-Mutsallem to the northeast, and by Tall al-Asmar to the northwest. Lajjun, which was linked by secondary roads to the Jenin-Haifa road, and the road that led southwest to the town of Umm al-Fahm, laid close to the junctions of the two highways.[13]

Nearby localities included, the destroyed village of Ayn al-Mansi to the northwest, and the surviving villages of Zalafa to the south, Bayada and Musheirifa to the southwest, and Zububa (part of the Palestinian territories) to the southeast. The largest town near al-Lajjun was Umm al-Fahm, to the south.[14]

History

Bronze and Iron Ages

Lajjun is about 1 kilometer (0.62 mi) south of

Israelites, Megiddo, located on the military road leading from Asia to Egypt
and in a commanding situation, was heavily fortified by both peoples.

Lajjun stream has been identified with the brook Kina, or Qina, which is mentioned in the Egyptian descriptions of

Shmuel Yeivin theorized that the name Qina derives from qyni (Hebrew: קיני).[20] Donald B. Redford noted that the Egyptian transliteration might be of "qayin".[21]

Roman era

Modern-day historical geographers have placed the

Bar Kochba Revolt—a Jewish uprising against the Roman Empire—had been suppressed in 135 CE, the Roman emperor Hadrian ordered a second Roman legion, Legio VI Ferrata (6th "Ironclad" Legion), to be stationed in the north of the country to guard the Wadi Ara region, a crucial line of communication between the coastal plain of Palestine and the Jezreel Valley.[5][29] The place where it established its camp was known as Legio
.

In the 3rd century CE, when the army was removed, Legio became a city and its name was augmented with the adjectival

Maximianopolis.[3][29] Eusebius
mentions the village in his Onomasticon, under the name Legio.

Early Muslim period

Some Muslim historians believe the site of the

Estakhri and Ibn Hawqal, Lajjun was the northernmost town of Jund Filastin (military district of Palestine).[31]

A hoard of dinars dating from the Umayyad era have been found at Lajjun.[32]

The 10th-century Persian geographer Ibn al-Faqih wrote of a local legend related by the people of Lajjun regarding the source of the abundant spring used as the town's primary water source over the ages:

there is just outside al-Lajjun a large stone of round form, over which is built a dome, which they call the Mosque of Abraham. A copious stream of water flows from under the stone and it is reported that Abraham struck the stone with his staff, and there immediately flowed from it water enough to suffice for the supply of the people of the town, and also to water their lands. The spring continues to flow down to the present day.[33]

In 940,

Muhammad ibn Tughj—was killed. Ibn Ra'iq was remorseful at the sight of Husayn's dead body and offered his seventeen-year-old son, Abu'l-Fath Muzahim, to Ibn Tughj "to do with him whatever they saw fit". Ibn Tughj was honored by Ibn Ra'iq's gesture; instead of executing Muzahim, he gave the latter several gifts and robes, then married him to his daughter Fatima.[34]

In 945, the

nahiya (subdistrict) of Jund al-Urdunn ( (military district of Jordan),[36] which also included the towns of Nazareth and Jenin.[37][38]

Crusader, Ayyubid and Mamluk periods

When the Crusaders invaded and conquered the

Ayyubids raided Legio, and in 1187, it was captured by them under the leadership of Saladin's nephew Husam ad-Din 'Amr and consequently its Arabic name, Lajjun, was restored.[5]

In 1226, Arab geographer

Hospitallers raided Lajjun and took 300 men and women captives to Acre. In the treaty between Sultan Qalawun and the Crusaders on 4 June 1283, Lajjun was listed as the Mamluk territory.[5]

By 1300, the Levant was entirely in Mamluk hands and divided into several provinces. Lajjun became the center of an ʿAmal (subdistrict) in the Mamlaka of

postal route (braid) between Egypt and Damascus.[5]

Ottoman era

Early rule and the Tarabay family

The Ottoman Empire conquered most of Palestine from the Mamluks after the Battle of Marj Dabiq in 1517.

As the army of Sultan

Baysan.[49]

After a short period in which the Tarabays were in a state of rebellion, tensions suddenly died down and the Ottomans appointed Ali ibn Tarabay as the governor of Lajjun in 1559. His son Assaf Tarabay ruled Lajjun from 1571 to 1583. During his reign, he extended Tarabay power and influence to

nahiya of Sha'ra and paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, as well as goats, beehives and water buffaloes.[51]

Assaf Tarabay was not reinstated as governor, but Lajjun remained in Tarabay hands, under the rule of Governor Tarabay ibn Ali who was succeeded upon his death by his son Ahmad in 1601, who also ruled until his death in 1657. Ahmad, known for his courage and hospitality,

al-Auja river in central Palestine in 1623.[52]

The Ottoman authorities of Damascus expanded Ahmad's fief as a token of gratitude. Ahmad's son Zayn Tarabay ruled Lajjun for a brief period until his death in 1660. He was succeeded by Ahmad's brother Muhammad Tarabay, who—according to his French secretary—had good intentions for governing Lajjun, but was addicted to opium and as a result had been a weak leader. After his death in 1671, other members of the Tarabay family ruled Lajjun until 1677 when the Ottomans replaced them with a government officer.[45] The main reason behind the Ottoman abandonment of the Tarabays was that their larger tribe, the Bani Hareth, migrated east of Lajjun to the eastern banks of the Jordan River.[53] Later during this century, Sheikh Ziben, ancestor to the Arrabah-based Abd al-Hadi clan, became the leader of Sanjak Lajjun.[49] When Henry Maundrell visited in 1697, he described the place as "an old village near which was a good khan".[54]

Later Ottoman rule

khan and old bridge at Lajjun, 1870s[55]

Much of the Lajjun district territories were actually taxed by the stronger families of Sanjak Nablus by 1723. Later in the 18th century, Lajjun was replaced by Jenin as the administrative capital of the sanjak which now included the Sanjak of

Ajlun. By the 19th century it was renamed Sanjak Jenin, although 'Ajlun was separated from it.[56] Zahir al-Umar, who became the effective ruler of the Galilee for a short period during the second half of the 18th century, was reported to have used cannons against Lajjun in the course of his campaign between 1771–1773 to capture Nablus.[57] It is possible that this attack led to the village's decline in the years that followed.[58] By that time, Lajjun's influence was diminished by the increasing strength of Acre's political power and Nablus's economic muscle.[56]

Old bridge of Lajjun, picture taken between 1903 and 1905[59]

Esdraelon.[60] When the British consul James Finn visited the area in the mid-19th century, he did not see a village.[61] The authors of the Survey of Western Palestine also noticed a khan, south of the ruins of Lajjun in the early 1880s.[62] Gottlieb Schumacher saw caravans resting at the Lajjun stream in the early 1900s.[63]

A herd of camels near a stream in Lajjun, 1908[63]

Andrew Petersen, inspecting the place in 1993, noted that the principal extant buildings at the site are the khan and a bridge. The bridge, which crosses a major tributary of the Kishon River, is approximately 4 meters (13 ft) wide and 16 meters (52 ft) to 20 meters (66 ft) long. It is carried on three arches, the north side has been robbed of its outer face, while the south side is heavily overgrown with vegetation. According to Petersen, the bridge was already in ruins when drawn by Charles William Wilson in the 1870s. The khan is located on a low hill 150 meters (490 ft) to the southwest of the bridge. It is a square enclosure measuring approximately 30 meters (98 ft) per side with a central courtyard. The ruins are covered with vegetation, and only the remains of one room is visible.[64]

The modern village of Lajjun was a satellite village Umm al-Fahm. During its existence it came to eclipse its mother settlement in infrastructure and economic importance.[65] Originally, in the late 19th century, Arabs from Umm al-Fahm started to make use of the Lajjun farmland, settling for the season.[13][40][66] Gradually, they settled in the village, building their houses around the springs. In 1903–1905, Schumacher excavated Tell al-Mutasallim (ancient Megiddo) and some spots in Lajjun. Schumacher wrote that Lajjun ("el-Leddschōn") is properly the name of the stream and surrounding farmlands,[67] and calls the village along the stream Ain es-Sitt. Which, he noted, "consists of only nine shabby huts in the midst of ruins and heaps of dung." and a few more fellahin huts south of the stream.[68] By 1925 some of the inhabitants of Lajjun reused stones from the ancient structure that had been unearthed to build new housing.[69] At some point in the early 20th century the four hamulas ("clans") of Umm al-Fahm divided the land among themselves: al-Mahajina, al-Ghubariyya, al-Jabbarin and al-Mahamid clans.[70][71] Lajjun thus transformed into three ‘Lajjuns’, or administratively separate neighbourhoods  reflecting the Hebronite/Khalīlī settlement pattern of its founders.[72]

Taken more broadly, Lajjun was one of the settlements of the so-called "Fahmawi Commonwealth", a network of interspersed

Bilad al-Ruha/Ramot Menashe, Wadi 'Ara and Marj Ibn 'Amir/Jezreel Valley during that time.[72]

Map of Tel Megiddo and Lajjun in 1905. The village is at the dark knee of the stream
Map of Tel Megiddo and Lajjun in 1905. The village is at the dark knee of the stream
Aerial photo with Lajjun and Tel Megiddo, 1944
Notice the changes such as a new quarter in the bottom left corner, the roads and the British police station near the intersection.

British Mandate period

More people moved to Lajjun during the British mandate period, particularly in the late thirties, due to the British crackdown on participants in the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.[58] The tomb of Yusuf Hamdan, a local leader of the revolt, is located in the village.[73] Others moved in as they came to understand that the Mandate authorities planned to turn Lajjun into a county seat.[74] During 1940–1941, a police station belonging to the Tegart forts system was constructed at the road intersection outside Lajjun by the British Mandate government.[75]

Lajjun's economy grew rapidly as a result of the influx of the additional population.[58] As the village expanded, it was divided into three quarters, one to the east, one to the west, and the older one in the north. Each quarter was inhabited by one or more hamula ("clan").[66]

Survey of Palestine map of Lajjun, 1946

Lajjun had a school that was founded in 1937 and that had an enrollment of 83 in 1944. It was located in the quarter belonging to the al-Mahajina al-Fawqa clan, that is, in Khirbat al-Khan. In 1943, one of the large landowners in the village financed the construction of a mosque, built of white stone, in the al-Ghubariyya (eastern) quarter. Another mosque was also established in the al-Mahamid quarter during the same period, and was financed by the residents themselves.[66] It was a four-year elementary school for boys.[76]

In 1945, Lajjun, Umm al-Fahm and seven hamlets had a total land area of 77.24 square kilometres (29.82 sq mi), of which 68.3 square kilometres (26.4 sq mi) was Arab-owned, and the remainder being public property.[77][78] There was a total of 50 km2 (12,000 acres) of land that was cultivated; 4.3 km2 (1,100 acres) were used for plantations and irrigated, and 44.6 km2 (11,000 acres) were planted with cereals (wheat and barley).[79] The built-up area of the villages was 0.128 km2 (32 acres), most of it being in Umm al-Fahm and Lajjun.[80] Former villagers recall they grew wheat and corn in the fields, and irrigated crops such as eggplant, tomato, okra, cowpea and watermelon.[81] A survey map from 1946 shows most of the buildings in the eastern and western quarters as built from stone and mud,[9] but some used mud over wood.[82] Many houses had neighbouring small plots marked as "orchards".[9]

There was a small market place in the village, as well as six grain mills (powered by the numerous springs and wadis in the vicinity), and a health center.[66] The various quarters of Lajjun had many shops. A bus company was established in Lajjun by a villager from Umm al-Fahm; the bus line served Umm al-Fahm, Haifa, and a number of villages, such as Zir'in. In 1937, the line had seven buses. Subsequently, the company was licensed to serve Jenin also, and acquired the name of "al-Lajjun Bus Company".[83]

1948 War

Lajjun was allotted to the Arab state in the 1947 proposed

New York Times reported that twelve Arabs were killed and fifteen wounded during that Haganah offensive.[84] Palmach units of the Haganah raided and blew up much of Lajjun on the night of April 15–16.[85]

On April 17, it was occupied by the Haganah. According to the newspaper, Lajjun was the "most important place taken by the Jews, whose offensive has carried them through ten villages south and east of Mishmar Ha'emek." The report added that women and children had been removed from the village and that 27 buildings in the village were blown up by the Haganah. However, al-Qawuqji states that attacks resumed on May 6, when ALA positions in the area of Lajjun were attacked by Haganah forces. The ALA's Yarmouk Battalion and other ALA units drove back their forces, but two days later, the ALA commander reported that the Haganah was "trying to cut off the Lajjun area from Tulkarm in preparation of seizing Lajjun and Jenin..."[86]

State of Israel

On May 30, 1948, in the first stage of the

1948 Arab-Israeli War, Lajjun was captured by Israel's Golani Brigade in Operation Gideon. The capture was particularly important for the Israelis because of its strategic location at the entrance of the Wadi Ara, which thus, brought their forces closer to Jenin.[87] During the second truce between Israel and the Arab coalition, in early September, a United Nations official fixed the permanent truce line in the area of Lajjun, according to press reports. A 500-yard strip was established on both sides of the line in which Arabs and Jews were allowed to harvest their crops.[13] Lajjun was used as transit place by the Israel Defense Forces to transfer 1,400 Arab women, children and elderly from Ijzim, who then were sent on foot to Jenin.[88]

Kibbutz Megiddo was built on some of Lajjun's village lands starting in 1949. Lajjun's buildings were demolished in the following months.[89]

In November 1953, 34.6 square kilometres (13.4 sq mi) of the lands of Umm al-Fahm were confiscated by the state, invoking the Land Acquisition (Validation of Acts and Compensation) Law, 5713-1953. These included much of the built-up area of Lajjun (at Block 20420, covering 0.2 square kilometres (0.077 sq mi)).[90] It was later planted with forest trees.

In 1992 Walid Khalidi described the remains: "Only the white stone mosque, one village mill, the village health center, and a few partially destroyed houses remain on the site. The mosque has been converted into a carpentry workshop and one of the houses has been made into a chicken coop. The health center and grain mill are deserted, and the school is gone. The cemetery remains, but it is in a neglected state; the tomb of Yusuf al-Hamdan, a prominent nationalist who fell in the 1936 revolt, is clearly visible. The surrounding lands are planted with almond trees, wheat, and barley; they also contain animal sheds, a fodder plant, and a pump installed on the spring of 'Ayn al-Hajja. The site is tightly fenced in and entry is blocked."[89] In 2000 Meron Benvenisti restated the information about the 1943 white mosque.[2] By 2007 it was evacuated and sealed up. [73]

In the 2000s, 486 families from Umm al-Fahm (formerly from Lajjun), through

Adalah, motioned to nullify the confiscation of that particular block. The district court ruled against the plaintiffs in 2007,[73] and the supreme court held the decision in 2010.[91]

Lajjun is among the Palestinian villages for which commemorative Marches of Return have taken place, typically as part of Nakba Day, such as the demonstrations organized by the Association for the Defence of the Rights of the Internally Displaced.[92]

In 2013, architect Shadi Habib Allah presented a proposal for a Palestinian village to be rebuilt on Lajjun in areas that are currently a park and inhabited by descendants of its displaced residents. The presentation was made for the "From Truth to Redress" conference organized by Zochrot.[93]

Demographics

During early Ottoman rule, in 1596, Lajjun had a population of 226 people.

Jews.[40][95] In that year, there were 162 houses in the village.[11][95]
At the end of 1940, Lajjun had 1,103 inhabitants.

The prominent families of al-Lajjun were the Jabbarin, Ghubayriyya, Mahamid and the Mahajina. Around 80% of its inhabitants fled to Umm al-Fahm, where they currently live as

internally displaced Palestinians.[73]

Culture

Local tradition centered on 'Ayn al-Hajja, the spring of Lajjun, date back to the 10th century CE when the village was under Islamic rule. According to geographers of that century, as well as the 12th century, the legend was that under the Mosque of Abraham, a "copious stream flowed" which formed immediately after the prophet Abraham struck the stone with his staff.[33] Abraham had entered the town with his flock of sheep on his way towards Egypt, and the people of the village informed him that the village possessed only small quantities of water, thus Abraham should pass on the village to another. According to the legend, Abraham was commanded to strike the rock, resulting in water "bursting out copiously". From then, the village orchards and crops were well-irrigated and the people satisfied with a surplus of drinking water from the spring.[39]

In Lajjun there are tombs for two Mamluk-era Muslim relics who were from the village. The holy men were Ali Shafi'i who died in 1310 and Ali ibn Jalal who died in 1400.[13]

Archaeology

In 2001, archaeological excavations were conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) at sites of Kefar ‘Otnay and Legio west of Megiddo Junction. The results revealed artifacts dating back to the Roman and early Byzantine periods.[96] In 2004, further excavations were conducted by the IAA at Legio.[97]

See also

  • History of Palestine
  • Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel
  • List of villages depopulated during the Arab-Israeli conflict
  • Megiddo church
    , possibly dating to the 3rd century and located at ancient Legio

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