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Sheikh Danun

Sheikh Dannun; also transliterated as Sheikh Danun and Sheikh Danon) is an Arab village located in 's . Since 1948, it has been made up of two old villages – Shaykh Danun and Shaykh Dawud – which were merged, and are now jointly referred to as Sheikh Dannun.
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  • Type: Village with 2,890 residents
  • Description: Arab village in northern Israel
  • Also known as: “Dannun”, “Danun”, “Esh Sheikh Dannun”, “Esh Sheikh Dāūd”, “Shaykh Daud”, “Shaykh Dawud”, “Sheikh Danmov”, “Sheikh Dannun”, “Sheikh Dannūn”, “Sheikh Danon”, “Sheikh Daud”, and “Sheikh Dāwūd”

Places of Interest

Highlights include El Ghabisiya and Tel Kabri.

Ruins
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Al-Ghabisiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in northern Palestine, 16 km north-east of in present-day . It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and remains deserted.

Archaeological site
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, or Tell al-Qahweh, is an archaeological tell containing one of the largest Middle Bronze Age Canaanite palaces in , and the largest such palace excavated as of 2014.

Hospital
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, abbreviated GMC, is a located in the coastal city of and is the second largest hospital in northern Israel. It was established in 1956. is situated 3½ km northwest of Sheikh Danun.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Netiv HaShayara and Amka.

Village
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is a moshav in northern . Located near , it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 488.

Village
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, also Amqa, is a moshav in the Matte Asher Regional Council of Israel's , near Acre. The moshav, located in the vicinity of Amqa, a Palestinian village depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, was founded by Yemenite Jews in 1949.

Village
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is a kibbutz in northern . Located in the western Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. As of 2023 it had a population of 770. is situated 2½ km south of Sheikh Danun.

Sheikh Danun

Latitude
32.99358° or 32° 59′ 37″ north
Longitude
35.14825° or 35° 8′ 54″ east
Population
2,890
Elevation
102 metres (335 feet)
Open location code
8G4QX4VX+C7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 613808241
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
295157
Wiki­data ID
Q135434
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Sheikh Danun” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الشيخ دنون‎”
  • Arabic: “الشيخ دنون”
  • Cebuano: “Esh Sheikh Dannūn”
  • Czech: “Šejch Danun”
  • Czech: “Sheikh Danun”
  • Czech: “Sheykh Dannun”
  • Dutch: “Sheikh Danun”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الشيخ دنون”
  • French: “Sheikh Danun”
  • Hebrew: “Esh Sheikh Dannūn”
  • Hebrew: “Esh Sheikh Dāwūd”
  • Hebrew: “א שיח’ דאוד”
  • Hebrew: “א שיח’ דנון”
  • Hebrew: “שיח‘ דנון”
  • Hebrew: “שיח’ דנון”
  • Hebrew: “שייח דנון”
  • Hebrew: “שייח‘ דנון”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sheikh Danun”
  • Polish: “Szajch Dannun”
  • Polish: “Szejk Danun”
  • Swedish: “Esh Sheikh Dannūn”
  • Turkish: “Şeikh Danun”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sheikh Danun”. Photo: Almog, CC BY-SA 3.0.