Middle East
Israel
Northern District

Yehi’am Fortress

Khirbat Jiddin, known in the Kingdom of Jerusalem as Judin, was an Ottoman fortress in the western , originally built by the Teutonic Order after 1220 as a crusader castle, 16 km northeast of the city of Acre, which at the time was the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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  • Type: Castle
  • Description: village in mandatory Palestine, depopulated in 1948
  • Also known as: “Khirbat Jiddin”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Yehiam Fortress National Park.

Protected area
Photo: Bukvoed, CC BY 3.0.
Yehi'am Fortress National Park is an Israeli national park in western on the grounds of , whose main attractions are the ruins of a hilltop castle in Jiddin.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yehiam and Ga’aton.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.
is a kibbutz in northern . Located at the western , eight miles east of the coastal town of and 14 miles south-east of the with it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Ga'aton is a kibbutz in northern . Located in the western Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 740.

Village
Photo: Kippi70, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ein Ya'akov is a moshav in northern . Located near , it falls under the jurisdiction of Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 1,257.

Yehi’am Fortress

Latitude
32.99434° or 32° 59′ 40″ north
Longitude
35.22198° or 35° 13′ 19″ east
Population
1,500
Open location code
8G4QX6VC+PQ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 944203508
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Wiki­data ID
Q2916570
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Yehi’am Fortress” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جِدّين”
  • Arabic: “خربة جدين”
  • Arabic: “خربة جدّين”
  • Arabic: “خربة جِدّين”
  • Czech: “Chirbet Džidin”
  • Czech: “Mivcar Jechi’am”
  • Czech: “Mivcar Jechiam”
  • Czech: “Národní park Mivcar Jechi’am”
  • Dutch: “Khirbat Jiddin”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “خربة جدين”
  • French: “Khirbat Jiddin”
  • Hebrew: “מבצר יחיעם”
  • Hebrew: “מצודת יחיעם”
  • Hebrew: “קלעת ג’דין”
  • Polish: “Chirbat Dżiddin”
  • Polish: “Kirbat Jiddin”
  • Russian: “Йехиам (крепость)”
  • Russian: “Йехиам”
  • Spanish: “Jirbat Yiddin”
  • Swedish: “Jiddin, Khirbat”
  • Swedish: “Jiddin”
  • Urdu: “خربہ جدین”
  • “جِدّين”
  • “خربة جِدّين”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Yehi`am fortress and Abaya.

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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 “Yehi’am Fortress”. Photo: Bukvoed, CC BY 3.0.