Ar'ara
Ar'ara
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| Hebrew transcription(s) | |
| • ISO 259 | ʕarˁara |
Mosque in Ar'ara
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 Ar'ara
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| Coordinates: 32°29′40.41″N 35°05′38.81″E / 32.4945583°N 35.0941139°ECoordinates: 32°29′40.41″N 35°05′38.81″E / 32.4945583°N 35.0941139°E | |
| Grid position | 159/211 PAL |
| District | Haifa |
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| • Type | Local council (from 1970) |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 23,996 |
| Name meaning | "The juniper tree" |
'Ar'ara (Arabic: عرعرة, Hebrew: עַרְעָרָה; lit. "Juniper tree") is an Arab town in the Wadi Ara region in northern Israel. It is located south of Umm al-Fahm just northwest of the Green Line and is part of the Triangle. In 2015 the population was 23,996.
Tombs with niches, cut into rock, and Byzantine era ceramics have been found.
Burial complexes from the Roman period by Ar'ara have been excavated, revealing clay lamps and glass vessels and beads, commonly used in the 1st to 4th century C.E. A few clay fragments from the Mamluk period have also been found at the same location.
In the Crusader period, the place was known as "Castellum Arearum". In the land-allocation made by sultan Baybars in 663 H. (1265-1266 C.E.), Ar'ara was shared between his amirs Ala' al-Din and Sayf al-Din Bayhaq al-Baghdadi.
Ar'ara, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in 1596, Ar'ara appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Shara of the Liwa of Lajjun. It had a population of 8 Muslim households and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summercrops, olives, and goats or beehives.
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