Beit She'an Valley
The Beit She'an Valley (Hebrew: בקעת בית שאן or Hebrew: עמק בית שאן) is a valley in Israel.
The valley lies within the Beit She'an rift, part of the Afro-Syrian Rift (Jordan Rift Valley), which opens westwards to the Harod Valley.[1] It is a middle part of the Jordan Valley. The valley is bounded by the Mount Gilboa mountain range from the southwest, Jordan River from the east, Nahal Tavor from the north, the lower part of the Wadi el Maleh (Malcha Stream/Nahal Malcha), where it flows into the Jordan River, from the south.[2] It is named after the ancient city of Beit She'an.
During the Ottoman period, the Beit She'an Valley formed part of the Bedouin Turabay emirate (1517-1683).[3][4] During the 18th century, the dominant local power in the valley were the Bedouins of the Banu Saqr tribe. Although weakened by their conflicts with the Acre-based strongmen Daher al-Umar and Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar and their successors, this tribe remained the predominant group of the valley, particularly the areas west and south of Beit She'an, throughout the 19th century.[5][6][7] The smaller tribes that lived in the others parts of the valley during this period were the Ghazzawiya, Bashatwa and the Balawna.[8]
The valley is abundant in springs. For this reason, in order to attract tourism, the Beit She'an Valley Regional Council was rebranded as the Emek HaMaayanot Regional Council ("Valley of Springs Regional Council")[9]
It includes the Beit She'an National park in the northern part of Beit She'an.[10]
See also
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[edit]- ↑ ""Background on the Area: The City of Beit Shean, the Emek Hamaayanot, Gilboa and Lower Galilee Regional Councils"". Archived from the original on 2022-05-25. Retrieved 2022-02-03.
- ↑ "בית יגאל אלון. מוזיאון ומרכז חינוכי - אדם בגליל, מאגר מידע - אתרים עמק בית שאן". www.bet-alon.co.il. Archived from the original on 14 January 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
- ↑ al-Bakhīt, Muḥammad ʻAdnān; al-Ḥamūd, Nūfān Rajā (1989). "Daftar mufaṣṣal nāḥiyat Marj Banī ʻĀmir wa-tawābiʻihā wa-lawāḥiqihā allatī kānat fī taṣarruf al-Amīr Ṭarah Bāy sanat 945 ah". www.worldcat.org. Amman: Jordanian University. pp. 1–35. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
- ↑ Marom, Roy. "Lajjun: Forgotten Provincial Capital in Ottoman Palestine". Levant. doi:10.1080/00758914.2023.2202484.
- ↑ Cohen 1973, pp. 90, 109–111.
- ↑ Canaan 1936, p. 21.
- ↑ Sharon 1999, p. 204.
- ↑ Kark & Frantzman 2010, pp. 52, 54.
- ↑ גלגולה החדש של בקעת בית-שאן: "עמק המעיינות" [The new incarnation of the Beit She'an Valley: "The Valley of the Springs"], Makor Rishon, June 13, 2008
- ↑ Meet Bet Shean National Park Take it slow in Israel’s Valley of Springs, Israel21c
Sources
[edit]- Canaan, Tawfiq (1936). "The Ṣaqr Bedouin of Bîsān". Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society. 16: 21–32.
- Cohen, Amnon (1973). Palestine in the 18th Century: Patterns of Government and Administration. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press. ISBN 978-0-19-647903-3.
- Kark, Ruth; Frantzman, Seth J. (2010). "Bedouin, Abdül Hamid II, British Land Settlement and Zionism: The Baysan Valley and Sub-district 1831–1948". Israel Studies. 15 (2): 49–79. doi:10.2979/isr.2010.15.2.49.
- Sharon, Moshe (1999). Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, Volume Two: B–C. Leiden, Boston and Köln: Bril. ISBN 90-04-11083-6.
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