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For city in India located in Madhya Pradesh State, see Indore.

Template:Infobox former Arab villages in Palestine

Indur (Arabic: إندور) was a Palestinian village, located Template:Km to mi southeast of Nazareth. Its Arabic name preserves that of ancient Endor, a Canaanite city state thought to have been located Template:Km to mi to the northeast.[1] The village was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and its inhabitants became refugees, some of whom were internally displaced. In Israel today, there are a few thousand internally displaced Palestinians who hail from Indur, and continue to demand their right of return.

Etymology

The Arabic name of this village preserves that of the ancient Canaanite city of Endor (Arabic: عين دور, 'ayn dur), mentioned in the Bible as the place King Saul met the [[a certain woman known to be a medium.[2][3][4] While a few scholars believe that Indur is the actual site of ancient Endor, many believe that Khirbet Safsafa, located Template:Km to mi to the northeast, is a more likely candidate.[1][4][5]

History

In 1596, Indur was a part of the Ottoman nahiya ("subdistrict") of Shafa under the liwa' ("district") of Lajjun with a population of twenty-two. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley and olives, as well as goats and beehives.[6]

In Ottoman era Palestine, an elementary school was founded in Indur, but was closed during the British Mandate in Palestine.[7] Sheikh Tawfiq Ibrahim, one of the leaders of the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine was from Indur.[7]

The village was captured by Israel's Golani Brigade from its defenders, the local militia and the Arab Liberation Army on May 24, 1948. The town was completely abandoned.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Mazar, 1971, p. 318.
  2. ^ Grolier, 2000, p. 340.
  3. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 344.
  4. ^ a b Negev and Gibson, 2005, p. 166.
  5. ^ Freedman, etal., 2006, p. 406.
  6. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 157. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 344.
  7. ^ a b c "Welcome to Indur". Palestine remembered. Retrieved 2007-12-12.

Bibliography

  • Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977), Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century, Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft
  • Freedman, David Noel; Myers, Allen C.; Beck (2000), Eerdmans dictionary of the Bible (Illustrated ed.), Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, ISBN 0802824005, 9780802824004 {{citation}}: |first3= missing |last3= (help); Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
  • Morris, Benny (2004), The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521009677
  • Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, ISBN 0887282245
  • The Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Incorporated, 2000, ISBN 717201333, 9780717201334 {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
  • Mazar, Benjamin (1971), The world history of the Jewish people, Allen, ISBN 0491003641, 9780491003643 {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
  • Negev, Avraham; Gibson, Shimon (2005), Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land (Illustrated, revised ed.), Continuum International Publishing Group, ISBN 0826485715
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