Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Sir, Jenin

Index Sir, Jenin

Sir (صير) is a Palestinian town in the Jenin Governorate in the western area of the West Bank, located 18 kilometers south of Jenin. [1]

35 relations: Achaemenid Empire, Akçe, Amalric of Jerusalem, Byzantine Empire, Cistern, Crusader states, Defter, Dunam, Israel, Jenin, Jenin Governorate, Jordan, Liwa (Arabic), Mandatory Palestine, Marj Sanur, Meithalun, Mosque, Muslim, Nablus Sanjak, Nahiyah, Ottoman Empire, Palestine (region), Palestine Exploration Fund, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Palestinians, Roman Empire, Sherd, Six-Day War, Victor Guérin, Village Statistics, 1945, West Bank, 1922 census of Palestine, 1931 census of Palestine, 1948 Arab–Israeli War, 1949 Armistice Agreements.

Achaemenid Empire

The Achaemenid Empire, also called the First Persian Empire, was an empire based in Western Asia, founded by Cyrus the Great.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Achaemenid Empire · See more »

Akçe

The akçe (آقچه) was the chief monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire, a silver coin.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Akçe · See more »

Amalric of Jerusalem

Amalric (Amalricus; Amaury; 113611 July 1174) was King of Jerusalem from 1163, and Count of Jaffa and Ascalon before his accession.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Amalric of Jerusalem · See more »

Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire and Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, which had been founded as Byzantium).

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Byzantine Empire · See more »

Cistern

A cistern (Middle English cisterne, from Latin cisterna, from cista, "box", from Greek κίστη, "basket") is a waterproof receptacle for holding liquids, usually water.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Cistern · See more »

Crusader states

The Crusader states, also known as Outremer, were a number of mostly 12th- and 13th-century feudal Christian states created by Western European crusaders in Asia Minor, Greece and the Holy Land, and during the Northern Crusades in the eastern Baltic area.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Crusader states · See more »

Defter

A defter (plural: defterler) was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Defter · See more »

Dunam

A dunam (دونم; dönüm), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount of land that could be ploughed by a team of oxen in a day.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Dunam · See more »

Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Israel · See more »

Jenin

Jenin (جنين) is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Jenin · See more »

Jenin Governorate

The Jenin Governorate (محافظة جنين; נפת ג'נין) is one of 16 Governorates of Palestine.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Jenin Governorate · See more »

Jordan

Jordan (الْأُرْدُنّ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية), is a sovereign Arab state in Western Asia, on the East Bank of the Jordan River.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Jordan · See more »

Liwa (Arabic)

Liwa, or Liwā’, is an Arabic term meaning ensign, or banner.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Liwa (Arabic) · See more »

Mandatory Palestine

Mandatory Palestine (فلسطين; פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א"י), where "EY" indicates "Eretz Yisrael", Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity under British administration, carved out of Ottoman Syria after World War I. British civil administration in Palestine operated from 1920 until 1948.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Mandatory Palestine · See more »

Marj Sanur

Marj Sanur (مرج صانور, translation: "Sanur Valley"; also called Marj al-Ghuruq, translation: "Drowning Valley") is a closed basin within the northern mountains of the West Bank, located entirely in the southern Jenin Governorate, in between the cities of Jenin (to the north) and Nablus (to the south).

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Marj Sanur · See more »

Meithalun

Meithalun (ميثلون, transliteration: Meithalûn; also spelled Maythalun, Maithaloun or Meithalon) is a Palestinian town in the Jenin Governorate in the northern West Bank, located 26 kilometers south of Jenin.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Meithalun · See more »

Mosque

A mosque (from masjid) is a place of worship for Muslims.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Mosque · See more »

Muslim

A Muslim (مُسلِم) is someone who follows or practices Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Muslim · See more »

Nablus Sanjak

The District of Nablus (Nablus Sancağı) also known as the Sanjak of Nablus is an administrative area that existed throughout Ottoman rule of Ottoman Syria and to a lesser extent during British rule.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Nablus Sanjak · See more »

Nahiyah

A nāḥiyah (ناحية, plural nawāḥī نواحي), or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages and/or sometimes smaller towns.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Nahiyah · See more »

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire (دولت عليه عثمانیه,, literally The Exalted Ottoman State; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Ottoman Empire · See more »

Palestine (region)

Palestine (فلسطين,,; Παλαιστίνη, Palaistinē; Palaestina; פלשתינה. Palestina) is a geographic region in Western Asia.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Palestine (region) · See more »

Palestine Exploration Fund

The Palestine Exploration Fund is a British society based in London.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Palestine Exploration Fund · See more »

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS; الجهاز المركزي للإحصاء الفلسطيني) is the official statistical institution of the State of Palestine.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics · See more »

Palestinians

The Palestinian people (الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha‘b al-Filasṭīnī), also referred to as Palestinians (الفلسطينيون, al-Filasṭīniyyūn, פָלַסְטִינִים) or Palestinian Arabs (العربي الفلسطيني, al-'arabi il-filastini), are an ethnonational group comprising the modern descendants of the peoples who have lived in Palestine over the centuries, including Jews and Samaritans, and who today are largely culturally and linguistically Arab.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Palestinians · See more »

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Roman Empire · See more »

Sherd

In archaeology, a sherd, or more precisely, potsherd, is commonly a historic or prehistoric fragment of pottery, although the term is occasionally used to refer to fragments of stone and glass vessels, as well.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Sherd · See more »

Six-Day War

The Six-Day War (Hebrew: מלחמת ששת הימים, Milhemet Sheshet Ha Yamim; Arabic: النكسة, an-Naksah, "The Setback" or حرب ۱۹٦۷, Ḥarb 1967, "War of 1967"), also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between 5 and 10 June 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt (known at the time as the United Arab Republic), Jordan, and Syria.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Six-Day War · See more »

Victor Guérin

Victor Guérin (15 September 1821 – 21 September 1891) was a French intellectual, explorer and amateur archaeologist.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Victor Guérin · See more »

Village Statistics, 1945

Village Statistics, 1945 was a joint survey work prepared by the Government Office of Statistics and the Department of Lands of the British Mandate Government for the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine which acted in early 1946.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and Village Statistics, 1945 · See more »

West Bank

The West Bank (الضفة الغربية; הגדה המערבית, HaGadah HaMa'aravit) is a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia, the bulk of it now under Israeli control, or else under joint Israeli-Palestinian Authority control.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and West Bank · See more »

1922 census of Palestine

The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and 1922 census of Palestine · See more »

1931 census of Palestine

1931 census of Palestine was the second census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate for Palestine.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and 1931 census of Palestine · See more »

1948 Arab–Israeli War

The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, or the First Arab–Israeli War, was fought between the State of Israel and a military coalition of Arab states over the control of Palestine, forming the second stage of the 1948 Palestine war.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and 1948 Arab–Israeli War · See more »

1949 Armistice Agreements

The 1949 Armistice Agreements are a set of armistice agreements signed during 1949 between Israel and neighboring Egypt, UN Doc S/1264/Corr.1 23 February 1949 Lebanon, UN Doc S/1296 23 March 1949 Jordan, UN Doc S/1302/Rev.1 3 April 1949 and Syria UN Doc S/1353 20 July 1949 to formally end the official hostilities of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and establish armistice lines between Israeli forces and Jordanian-Iraqi forces, also known as the Green Line. The United Nations established supervising and reporting agencies to monitor the established armistice lines.

New!!: Sir, Jenin and 1949 Armistice Agreements · See more »

Redirects here:

Sir (Jenin), Sir (town).

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir,_Jenin

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »