Hittin
Hittin was a Palestinian village located 8 kilometers west of Tiberias before it was occupied by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war when most of its original residents became refugees after being ethnically cleansed.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 1,190 residents
- Description: historic Palestinian village, the site of the Battle of Hattin in 1187, replaced in 1949–1950 by two Jewish Israeli villages
- Also known as: “Hattin”, “Kefar Hitim”, “Kefar Hittin”, “Kfar Hitim”, and “KfarHittim”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Biq`at Arbel and Capture of Tiberias.
Capture of Tiberias
Battlefield
Photo: George Washington Lambert, Public domain.
The Capture of Tiberias took place on 25 September 1918 during the Battle of Sharon which together with the Battle of Nablus formed the set piece Battle of Megiddo fought between 19 and 25 September in the last months of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War.
Mount Arbel
Peak
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Mount Arbel is a mountain in the Lower Galilee near Tiberias in Israel, with high cliffs, views of Mount Hermon and the Golan Heights, a cave-fortress, and ruins of an ancient synagogue. Mount Arbel is situated 3 km north of Hittin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kefar Hittim and Mitzpa.
Kefar Hittim
Village
Photo: Danny Gershoni, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kfar Hittim is a moshav shitufi in northern Israel. Located on a hill 3 km west of Tiberias, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council.
Mitzpa
Village
Photo: Asafsagi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mitzpa is a moshava in the Lower Galilee Regional Council, Israel. Located next to the Sea of Galilee and Tiberias, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 158.
Tiberias
Photo: Юкатан, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tiberias is a city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. A major Jewish center during Late Antiquity, it has been considered since the 16th century one of Judaism's Four Holy Cities, along with Jerusalem, Hebron, and Safed.
Hittin
- Categories: village, depopulated Palestinian village, and human settlement
- Location: Northern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Hittin” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حطين”
- Catalan: “Hattin”
- Chinese: “希丁”
- Dutch: “Hittin”
- Finnish: “Hattin”
- French: “Hattin”
- German: “Hittin”
- Hebrew: “Kefar H̱ittim”
- Hebrew: “Kfar H̱ittim”
- Hebrew: “חיטין”
- Hebrew: “כפר חטים”
- Italian: “Hittin”
- Japanese: “ヒッティーン”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hittin”
- Norwegian: “Hittin”
- Persian: “حطین”
- Polish: “Hittin”
- Russian: “Хаттин”
- Russian: “Хиттин”
- Slovak: “Hattín”
- Spanish: “Hittin”
- Turkish: “Hıttin”
- Urdu: “حطین، طبریا”
- Western Panjabi: “حطین، طبریا”
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