Yanun
| Yanun | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | يانون |
| • Also spelled | Yanoun (official) |
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| Coordinates: 32°08′43.57″N 35°21′20.46″E / 32.1454361°N 35.3556833°ECoordinates: 32°08′43.57″N 35°21′20.46″E / 32.1454361°N 35.3556833°E | |
| Palestine grid | 183/172 |
| Governorate | Nablus |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| • Head of Municipality | Abd al-Latif Bani Jaber |
| Area | |
| • Jurisdiction | 16,000 dunams (16.0 km2 or 6.2 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 102 |
| Name meaning | from personal name |
Yanun (Arabic: يانون, transliterated: Yânûn) is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) southeast of Nablus, and 3 miles north of Aqraba. It lies within Area C, under total Israeli control, of the West Bank. It is divided into two sites, upper and lower Yanun. Upper or northern Yanin is considered illegal by the Israeli authorities, and development is prohibited there. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the village had a population of 102 in 2007. This was a decrease from 2004 when the PCBS recorded that Yanun had 145 inhabitants. The residents of the village have to travel to Beit Furik for primary health care.
Pottery sherds from Iron Age II, Roman, Byzantine, and Crusader/Ayyubid era have been found here.
Yanun the village is distinct from Khirbet Yanun, nearby ruins to the north-east of the village. According to Edward Robinson, Yanun corresponds to the Janō(Ἰανὼ) of Eusebius and Jerome, a village in Acrabatene east of Neapolis, which, according to Robinson, these two Church fathers confused with the ancient frontier town of Yanoḥah(ינוחה) of Naphtali, which belonged to the Tribe of Ephraim.Victor Guérin argued that both Eusebius and Jerome had confused the Yanoḥah of the tribe of Ephraim with the quite distinct, homophonous village belonging to the tribe of Naphtali (p. 7) Modern researchers, following Guerin, have suggested that the Biblical Yanoḥah refers to Khirbet Yanun, as pottery sherds from lron Age I has been found there, and not at Yanun. Several caves dot the area, which the local school headmaster claims were dwelt in by the Canaanites.
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