Lajjun (Arabic: اللجّون, al-Lajjūn) was a large Palestinian Arab village located 16 kilometers (9.9 mi) northwest of Jenin and 1 kilometer (0.62 mi) south...
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Lajjun Sanjak was a sanjak of Damascus Eyalet from 1559 to the mid-18th century when it and the neighboring Ajlun Sanjak were combined to form the Jenin...
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Turabay dynasty (section Early governors of Lajjun)
(district governors) of Lajjun Sanjak during Ottoman rule in the 16th–17th centuries. The sanjak (district) spanned the towns of Lajjun, Jenin and Haifa, and...
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built 600 metres north-east of the site of the depopulated Arab village of Lajjun, now known as Einot Kobi. In Christian apocalyptic literature, Mount Megiddo...
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Lajjun Sanjak (Lajjun District). The sanjak was officially called the Iqta (Fief) of Turabay until 1559 when it became officially known as the Lajjun...
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continued to hold influence in Marj Ibn Amer as the hereditary governors of Lajjun until 1677. Turabay belonged to the Banu Haritha tribe, which claimed descent...
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the world have been found there. The depopulated Palestinian village of Lajjun is also located nearby. In the 1970s, Megiddo Prison was used as a military...
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administratively divided into the sanjaks (districts) of Tadmur, Safad, Lajjun, Ajlun, Nablus, Jerusalem,[dubious – discuss] Gaza and Karak, in addition...
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alliance of three local dynasties, the Ridwans of Gaza, the Turabays of al-Lajjun and the Farrukhs of Nablus, governed Palestine on behalf of the Porte (imperial...
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the Turabay Emirate (1517–1683). The Valley's capital was initially at Lajjun, the center of an eponymous sanjak and one of Palestine's provincial capitals...
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