Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Nazareth is the largest Arab city in Israel. [ 115] In 2009, the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics reported that Nazareth's Arab population was 69% Muslim and 30.9% Christian. [ 116] The greater Nazareth metropolitan area had a population of 210,000, including 125,000 Arabs (59%) and 85,000 Jews (41%).
Sepphoris issued its first coins at the time of the First Jewish War, in c. 68 CE, while Vespasian's army was reconquering the region from the rebels. [17] The inscriptions on the coins are honouring both the emperor in Rome, Nero (r. 54–68), and his general, Vespasian, as they read 'Under Vespasian, 'Eirenopolis-Neronias-Sepphoris'. [17]
Yafa an-Naseriyye ( Arabic: يافة الناصرة, also Jaffa of Nazareth, or simply Yafa, Kfar Yafia or Yafi Arabic: يافا, يفيع, Hebrew: יָפִיעַ) is an Arab town in Israel. It forms part of the metropolitan area of Nazareth, also an Arab locality. Declared a local council in 1960, it had a population of 19,704 in 2022, [1 ...
Ramat HaSharon, originally Ir Shalom ( Hebrew: עִיר שָׁלוֹם, lit. City of Peace ), was a moshava established in 1923 by olim from Poland. [ 8] It was built on 2,000 dunams (2 square kilometres (0.77 sq mi)) of land purchased for 5 Egyptian pounds per dunam. [citation needed] In the 1931 census, the village-esque town had a population ...
Ramada Worldwide Inc. Ramada is a large American multinational hotel chain owned by Wyndham Hotels & Resorts. As of December 31, 2022, it operates 851 hotels with 120,344 rooms across 63 countries under the Ramada brand.
Tourism in Israel is a major economic sector and a significant source of national income. Israel offers a plethora of historical and religious sites, beach resorts, natural sites, archaeological tourism, heritage tourism, adventure tourism, and ecotourism. For practical reasons, this article also covers tourism in the West Bank and the Golan ...
The Northern District ( Hebrew: מחוז הצפון, romanized : Mekhoz HaTzafon; Arabic: منطقة الشمال, romanized : Minṭaqat ash-Shamāl) is one of Israel 's six administrative districts. The Northern District has a land area of 3,324 km 2, making it the second largest district in Israel. The district capital is Nof HaGalil and the ...
Minaret (s) 1. The Nabi Saeen Mosque ( Arabic: مسجد النبي سعين, Masjid al-Nabi Saʿīn; Hebrew: מסגד נבי סעין, Misgad Navi Sa'in) is a mosque located on Nabi Saeen Hill in Nazareth, Israel, at a height of 487 meters (1,598 ft) above sea level. The mosque is located at the top of the ridge enclosing the city from the ...