Al-Ja'una
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The village overlooked the Jordan Valley
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 Al-Ja'una
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| Arabic | الجاعونة |
| Name meaning | from personal name |
| Also spelled | Jaauneh |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Coordinates | 32°58′18″N 35°31′58″E / 32.97167°N 35.53278°ECoordinates: 32°58′18″N 35°31′58″E / 32.97167°N 35.53278°E |
| Palestine grid | 200/264 |
| Population | 1,150 (1945) |
| Area | 839 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | 9 May 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
| Current localities | Rosh Pinna |
Al-Ja'una or Ja'ouna (Arabic: الجاعونة), was a Palestinian village situated in Galilee near al-Houleh Plateau, overlooking the Jordan Valley. The village lay on a hillside 450–500 meters above sea level, 5 kilometers east of Safad near a major road connecting Safad with Tabariya. The Israeli town of Rosh Pinna (Hebrew:ראש פינה) sits on the former village site, which was expanded to include the depopulated Palestinian Al-Ja'una.
Broken pillars and a capital has been found here.
Al-Ja'una was mentioned in the 1596 Ottoman census as being a village in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Jira, under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 171. Villagers paid taxes on wheat, barley, olives, goats, beehives, and a powered mill. All the villagers were Muslim.
The village appeared under the name of Gahoun on the map that Pierre Jacotin compiled during Napoleon's invasion of 1799.
In 1875, Victor Guérin found that Al-Ja'una had 200 Muslim inhabitants.
In 1881 the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described the village as being built of stone, on the slope of a hill, whose 140-200 residents cultivated fig and olive trees. There were two springs in a wadi, south of the village. A mosque and an elementary school for boys was established in the village in Ottoman times.
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