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Janīn (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 32 27 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 32.4500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 035 18 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 35.3000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located in northern Samaria, central Palestine. It has long been the chief marketing center of northern Samaria, in an agricultural area that produces wheat, olives, dates, carobs, and figs. The original ancient settlement is mentioned in the Amarna Letters, which are 14th-century-BC diplomatic documents found at Tell el-Amarna, Egypt. It is often identified as the biblical city of En-gannim of the Levites. In the Middle Ages the town was taken by the crusaders. It was a Turkish-German base in World War I, a center for Jordanian and Iraqi forces in 1948, and since then it was the northern apex of "the triangle" (Janin, T ul Karm, Nabulus), which has been a staging area for Arab guerrilla activity against Israel. |
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| Janīn (preferred,C,V)
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| Jenin (C,O,English-P,U,N)
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| Janin (C,O)
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| Jinin (C,V)
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| Gannim (C,O)
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| Le Grand Gerin (H,O,French,U,N)
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............ | name used by Crusaders |
| Engannim (C,V)
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............ | meaning "fountain of the garden," name of biblical city associatied with modern Jenin |
| En-Gannim (H,V)
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............ | meaning "fountain of the garden," name of biblical city associatied with modern Jenin |
| ʻEin Gannīm (C,V)
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| Djenin (C,V)
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| Anem (H,V)
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............ | alternate ancient name also referring to En-Gannim, meaning "two fountains" |
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Janīn (inhabited place) (P) |
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