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    Bayt Jibrin or Beit Jibrin (Arabic: بيت جبرين) was an Arab village in the Hebron District of Mandate Palestine, in what is today central Israel, which...
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    Temple Period, and Bayt Jibrin, a depopulated Palestinian town known as Eleutheropolis in the Roman era. However, Maresha and Bayt Jibrin are not part of...
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    kibbutz founded in 1939, had a strategic position overlooking the Majdal – Bayt Jibrin road, and was a target of two major assaults by the Egyptians in June...
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    Qeyla near the modern village of Qila, Hebron, 7 miles (11 km) east of Bayt Jibrin and about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of Kharas. The earliest historical...
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  • he died in 661. According to tradition, he is buried in the town of Bayt Jibrin (in the vicinity of Hebron), destroyed by Israel in 1948. Today his maqam...
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  • Qazaza, Idnibba, Mughallis, Zayta, Isdud and Bayt Jibrin. It was followed on July 17–18 by assaults on Bayt 'Affa, Hill 113, Kawkaba and Huleiqat, which...
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    Deir al-Balah and al-Arish (in north-central the Sinai) to the south; Bayt Jibrin, Karatiyya, Hebron and Jerusalem to the east—all of which had their own...
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    (now Kiryat Gath), thus cutting the road between al-Faluja and Bayt Jibrin. Beit Jibrin was captured by the 52 Battalion of Givati and the 8th Brigade...
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    Shavuot, by former Palmach members after the Palestinian Arab residents of Bayt Jibrin fled the military assault by Jewish forces during the 1948 Arab–Israeli...
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    Ajnadayn, Amr captured the towns of Sebastia, Nablus, Lydda, Yibna, Amwas, Bayt Jibrin and Jaffa. Most of these towns fell after minor resistance, hence the...
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    (Diospolis) Eleutheropolis (Bayt Jibrin) Ascalon (Askalon) Gaza Jerusalem Nablus Sebastia Caesarea Lydda Eleutheropolis (Bayt Jibrin) Ashkelon Gaza Seven cities...
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    destroyed/depopulated in the Nakba in 1948, e.g. al-Qubayba, al-Dawayima, Bayt Dajan, Lifta, Kafr Ana, Bayt Jibrin and az-Zakariyya. The oldest items are traced back to the...
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  • Huleiqat. A wedge was set up at Khirbet Masara (between Fallujah and Bayt Jibrin), in accordance with Operation Yoav's strategy to create wedges to cut...
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    Beisan /Beit She'an; Shefar-amr / Shefarʻam; Kafr 'Inan / Kefar Hananiah; Bayt Jibrin / Beit Gubrin, etc.) remained inscribed after their Arabic names, without...
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    municipality: Bayt 'Itab (Ottoman Turkish: ناحيه بيت اعطاب; Turkish: Beyt-i a'tâb nahiyesı; Arabic: ناحية بيت عطاب), created in 1903 Bayt Jibrin (Ottoman Turkish:...
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    Hebron, overlooking Wadi Bayt Jibrin to the north. Dayr Nakkhas was situated on the road to Hebron about two miles east of Bayt Jibrin. Perched on a hill,...
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    is placed by the Muslim literary sources somewhere between Ramla and Bayt Jibrin (modern Beit Guvrin), both in modern Israel, but is otherwise unattested...
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    Sozomen claimed that the relics of Habakkuk were found at Cela near Bayt Jibrin, when God revealed their location to Zebennus, bishop of Eleutheropolis...
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    of "two milestones from Eleutheropolis". The Palestinian Arab village Bayt Jibrin, standing on the site of ancient Eleutheropolis, was depopulated during...
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    July–August 634. Amr occupied numerous towns in Palestine, including Bayt Jibrin, Yibna, Amwas, Lydda, Jaffa, Nablus and Sebastia. Most of these localities...
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    Jarrahids, sending troops to collect the taxes from the iqtaʿ(fief) of the Bayt Jibrin, led by Hassan ibn Mufarrij.The Jarrahids kill the collectors. Anushtakin...
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    1932 to his death. Starkey was robbed and killed near Bayt Jibrin on a track leading from Bayt Jibrin to Hebron. Issa Battat, a rebel commander from the...
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  • Ruins of the former Arab village of Bayt Jibrin, inside the green line west of Hebron...
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    'Azza (redirect from Beit Jibrin (camp))
    Near East. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-07-10. Welcome To Bayt Jibrin R.C. Al 'Aza Camp (fact sheet), Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem...
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    "ad-Darum" or "ad-Dairan" was the name of the southern subdistrict of Bayt Jibrin, a corruption of the Aramaic name of the region, Daroma. Deir al-Balah...
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    Valley, including that road that branched off between the Shaar HaGai - Bayt Jibrin highway, and ascended eastward through the Elah Valley as far as al-Khader...
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    /Maresha בית גוברין Ἐλευθερόπολις (Eleutheropolis) Betogabri بيت جبرين (Bayt Jibrin) Kefar Othnai (לגיון) כפר עותנאי xxx Caporcotani (Legio) اللجّون (al-Lajjûn)...
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    established in 1949 to accommodate Palestinian refugees from Beersheba and Bayt Jibrin and the surrounding area on 350 dunams of land. There are two schools...
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    Muslim. In former times, the city lay along the route from Jerusalem to Bayt Jibrin. Battir is situated just above the modern route of the Jaffa–Jerusalem...
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    Amwas (Imwas), Kaisariyya (Caesarea), Yibna, Ludd (Lydda), Rafh (Rafah), Bayt Jibrin, and Yaffa (Jaffa). Cited in le Strange, 1890, p. 28 le Strange, 1890...
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