Yanuh-Jat
Yanuh-Jat
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| • ISO 259 | Yanuaḥ - Ǧatt |
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 Yanuh-Jat
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| Coordinates: 32°58′58″N 35°14′39″E / 32.98278°N 35.24417°ECoordinates: 32°58′58″N 35°14′39″E / 32.98278°N 35.24417°E | |
| Grid position | 173/265 PAL |
| District | Northern |
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| • Type | Local council (from 1990) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 13,400 dunams (13.4 km2 or 5.2 sq mi) |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 6,253 |
| Name meaning | Yanuh, possibly from Yanoh Jett, possibly "elevated ground" |
Yanuh-Jat (Arabic: يانوح-جت, יָנוּחַ-גַ'תּ) is a local council in the Northern District of Israel, northeast of Acre, consisting of the villages of Yanuh and Jat, which merged in 1990. In 2015 it had a population of 6,253, predominantly members of the Druze community.
In Yanuh, old hewn stones have been found reused in village houses. Lintels, oil press, grape press, cisterns cut in rock and old graves have also been described.
Remains from the Bronze Ages, the Iron Age, the Hellenistic, Roman and the Byzantine periods were found when an area near the shrine of Shaykh Abu Arus in Jat was excavated. 4th and 5th century CE glass vases were found in Jat when a burial cave was excavated in 1966. Ceramics from the same period was also found, together with a bronze bell in an excavation in 1967 of a grave with a central chamber and loculi.
In the Crusader era, Jat was known under the name of Jesce, Jeth or Gez. It first belonged to the lord who had a seat at Mi'ilya, ("Castellum Regis"), later it belonged to the Teutonic Knights. In 1220 Joscelin III´s daughter Beatrix de Courtenay and her husband Otto von Botenlauben, Count of Henneberg, sold their land, including Gez, to the Teutonic Knights.
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