Rumana, Israel
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Rumana רומאנה رمانة |
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 Rumana
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| Coordinates: 32°47′17″N 35°18′38″E / 32.78806°N 35.31056°ECoordinates: 32°47′17″N 35°18′38″E / 32.78806°N 35.31056°E | |
| Grid position | 179/243 PAL |
| District | Northern |
| Council | al-Batuf |
| Population (2015) | 1,129 |
| Name meaning | Pomegranate |
Rumana (Arabic: رمانة; Hebrew: רֻמָּנָה, רומאנה) is an Arab village in northern Israel. Located near Nazareth, it falls under the jurisdiction of al-Batuf Regional Council. In 2015 its population was 1,129.
The Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine found cisterns and rock-cut caves, and traces of ancient remains at this village.
Sherds ascribed to the Early Bronze Age I and the Intermediate Bronze Age have been found, as well as a cluster of sherds from the Iron Age II (tenth–eighth centuries BCE). A building with sherds from the Iron Age II and the Persian era have also been excavated.
Graves dating to the Persian era and remains of an architectural complex from the Roman era (first–third centuries CE) have been excavated here.
It has been suggested that Rumana was Romette, a casuale belonging to the Knights Hospitallers in the Crusader era.
A small number of remains from the Mamluk era has also been found.
Rumana, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village was located in the nahiya of Tabariyya in the liwa of Safad. It had a population of 9 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid taxes on wheat, barley, fruit trees, cotton, goats and beehives.Pierre Jacotin called the village Roumani on his map in 1799.
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