Arabah
Arraba, also Arrabah, Arrabeh or Arrabet Jenin, is a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank located 12 kilometers southwest of Jenin and has an elevation of 350 meters above sea level.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 11,500 residents
- Description: Palestinian town in the northern West Bank
- Also known as: “Arraba”, “Arraba, Jenin”, and “Yazan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tell Dothan.
Tell Dothan
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Dothan is a location mentioned twice in the Hebrew Bible. It has been identified with Tell Dothan, also known as Tell al-Hafireh, located adjacent to the Palestinian town of Bir al-Basha, and ten kilometers southwest of Jenin in the West Bank, near Dotan Junction of Route 60. Tell Dothan is situated 3½ km east of Arabah.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bir al-Basha and Mevo Dotan.
Bir al-Basha
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bir al-Basha is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 15 km southwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 1,307 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 1,725 by 2017. Bir al-Basha is situated 3 km northeast of Arabah.
Mevo Dotan
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mevo Dotan is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located in the south of the Dothan Valley east of Baqa al-Gharbiyye and adjacent to the Palestinian town of Ya'bad, it is organised as a community settlement and falls under the jurisdiction of Shomron Regional Council. Mevo Dotan is situated 3 km northwest of Arabah.
Fahma
Village
Photo: יעקב, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fahma is a Palestinian town in the Jenin Governorate of the State of Palestine in the western area of the West Bank, located 15 kilometers southwest of Jenin. Fahma is situated 3½ km southwest of Arabah.
Arabah
- Category: locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.40461° or 32° 24′ 17″ northLongitude
35.20334° or 35° 12′ 12″ eastPopulation
11,500Open location code
8G4QC633+R8OpenStreetMap ID
node 332785606OpenStreetMap feature
place=townWikidata ID
Q2463999
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Arabah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “عرابة”
- Arabic: “عَرّابة”
- Arabic: “عرابه”
- Asturian: “Arraba”
- Basque: “Arraba (Jenin)”
- Basque: “Arraba”
- Catalan: “Arraba”
- Chinese: “阿拉巴”
- Chinese: “阿拉贝杰宁”
- Dutch: “Arraba”
- Egyptian Arabic: “عرابه”
- French: “Arraba, Jénine”
- French: “Arraba”
- Galician: “Arraba”
- German: “Arraba”
- Hebrew: “עראבה”
- Italian: “Arrabah”
- Japanese: “アッラーバ”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arraba i Jenin”
- Persian: “عرابه”
- Polish: “Arraba”
- Romanian: “Araba, Jenin”
- Romanian: “Araba”
- Spanish: “Arraba”
- Urdu: “عرابہ، جنین”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
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