Yafa an-Naseriyye
Yafa an-Naseriyye
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| • Also spelled | Yafia (official) Yafa (unofficial) |
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 Yafa an-Naseriyye
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| Coordinates: 32°41′8.88″N 35°16′28.29″E / 32.6858000°N 35.2745250°ECoordinates: 32°41′8.88″N 35°16′28.29″E / 32.6858000°N 35.2745250°E | |
| Grid position | 176/232 PAL |
| District | Northern |
| Government | |
| • Type | Local council (from 1960) |
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| • Total | 4,087 dunams (4.087 km2 or 1.578 sq mi) |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 18,234 |
| Name meaning | Jaffa of Nazareth |
Yafa an-Naseriyye (Arabic: يافة الناصرة, "Jaffa of Nazareth", also Yafa, Kfar Yafia or Yafi Arabic: يافا, يفيع, Hebrew: יָפָא, יָפִיעַ) is an Arab town located in the Lower Galilee, Israel. It forms part of the metropolitan area of Nazareth, also an Arab locality. Declared a local council in 1960, Yafa had a population of 18,234 in 2015, approximately 70% of whom are Muslim and 30% Christian.
Yafa an-Naseriyye is an ancient town where rock-tombs and cisterns, cut into rock, have been found.
It was a vassal of Megiddo in the fourteenth century BCE, according to the Amarna letters.
Sherds have been found, dating from the Iron Age IIA-B (late tenth and ninth centuries BCE); Hellenistic (late second and early first centuries BCE.) and Roman era (first to fourth century).
It has been identified with the ancient town of Japhia, mentioned in the Book of Joshua as a border town belonging to Zebulun (Joshua 19:12). Local medieval tradition holds that Zebedee and his two sons, James and John lived in Yafa. As the first to mention this tradition was Marinus Sanutus, it was most likely a Crusader era invention.Josephus mentions the city Japha (Yafa) in his Life of Flavius Josephus (§ 37 and 45) and Wars of the Jews (Book 3, chapter 7, verse 31).
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