Tell el ‘Arāis
Tell el ‘Arāis is a hill in Northern District, Israel and has an elevation of 116 metres. Tell el ‘Arāis is situated nearby to the village Sheikh Danun, as well as near Amka.- Type: Hill with an elevation of 116 metres
- Description: hill in Israel
- Also known as: “Tall el Aarais” and “Tell el `Arais”
Places of Interest
Highlights include El Ghabisiya and Tel Kabri.
El Ghabisiya
Ruins
Photo: Wael.Othman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Al-Ghabisiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in northern Palestine, 16 km north-east of Acre in present-day Israel. It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and remains deserted.
Tel Kabri
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tel Kabri, or Tell al-Qahweh, is an archaeological tell containing one of the largest Middle Bronze Age Canaanite palaces in Israel, and the largest such palace excavated as of 2014. Tel Kabri is situated 2½ km northwest of Tell el ‘Arāis.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sheikh Danun and Amka.
Sheikh Danun
Village
Photo: Almog, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sheikh Dannun; also transliterated as Sheikh Danun and Sheikh Danon) is an Arab village located in Israel's Northern District. 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.
Amka
Village
Amka, also Amqa, is a moshav in the Matte Asher Regional Council of Israel's Northern District, 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.
Kabri
Village
Kabri is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Western Galilee about 4 kilometres east of the Mediterranean seaside town of Nahariya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. Kabri is situated 3 km northwest of Tell el ‘Arāis.
Tell el ‘Arāis
- Category: landform
- Location: Northern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Dutch—“Tell el ‘Arāis” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Tell el ‘Arāis”
- Dutch: “Tell el ‘Arāis”
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