Shibli-Umm al-Ghanam
Shibli–Umm al-Ghanam
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| • ISO 259 | Šibbli - ʔumm ˀel-Ránem (Israeli pronunciation) |
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| Coordinates: 32°41′03″N 35°23′49″E / 32.68417°N 35.39694°ECoordinates: 32°41′03″N 35°23′49″E / 32.68417°N 35.39694°E | |
| Grid position | 186/231 PAL |
| District | Northern |
| Founded | 1992 |
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| • Type | Local council (from 1992) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2,879 dunams (2.879 km2 or 1.112 sq mi) |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 5,694 |
| Name meaning | Khirbet Umm el Ghanem = The ruin with the sheep |
Shibli–Umm al-Ghanam (Arabic: الشبلي - أم الغنم, Hebrew: שִׁבְּלִי-אֻם אל-עַ'נַם) is an Arab town at the foot of Mount Tabor in Israel's Northern District. In 2015 it had a population of 5,694.
Archaeological excavations have revealed flint from the Mousterian culture, several knapped using the Levallois technique.
In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and in the 1596 tax-records it appeared as Um al-Ganam, located in the Nahiya of Tabariyya of the Liwa of Safad. The population was 8 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax- rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley and summer crops, in addition to occasional revenues, and goats and beehives; a total of 1910 Akçe.
In 1875, Victor Guérin found here "several ancient cisterns, still unbroken, and ancient caves cut in rock, which now serve as refuge for shepherds." In 1881 the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine found at Kh. Umm el Ghanem: "Heaps of stones, a few of which are hewn, all of small size, one small cave and one cistern."
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