Modern Galilee is one of the few areas of Israel to have retained a large Arab population after 1948, and has a particularly large number of Druze. The "heart of the Galilee" - the districts of Carmel, Upper Nazareth, Ma'alot, Migdal Ha'emek and Afula - has an Arab majority of 78%[1], despite Jewish Agency efforts to change the demographic balance. Its main cities are Akko (Acre), Nazareth, Safed (Tzfat), Afula, Qiryat Shemona and Tiberias. The city of Haifa, although outside the Galilee is serving as an administratio ...

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At and before the time of Jesus, the region of the Galilee had been populated by Gentiles, people who were of neither Jewish nor Samaritan ancestry. Galilee was not part of Judea proper but at times was under Judean control. Galilee was separated from it by a sliver of the Gentile Decapolis and by the ethnically mixed transitional region Samaria. The cultural and fundamentalist, religious Jews (Judeans), considered the region to be lower than the half-breeds of Samaria and therefore, m ...

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Some researchers believe that the New Testament is mistaken on the location of Jesus' birth, and claim that the true birthplace was Bethlehem in the Galilee. The site featured the ruins of a church and a synagogue until the late 19th century, and was found to have archeological evidence of a prosperous city; many scholars place Beth Lehem of Galilee as one of the birth places of Rabbinical Judaism — it is by all accounts a logical place for a spiritual leader with a small group of followers to develop his doctrines. The distance from Nazareth also settles the problem of Jesus crossing the distance between the two cit ...

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According to legend, Solomon rewarded Hiram for certain services rendered him by the gift of an upland plain among the mountains of Naphtali. Hiram was dissatisfied with the gift, and called it "the land of Cabul". The Jews called it Galil. During the Hasmonaean period, in the midst of the decline of the Seleucid Empire, the region was taken over by the Jews. In Roman times, the region was divided into Judea, Samaria, and Galilee, which comprised the whole northern section of the country, and was the largest of the three. Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great, ruled Galilee ...

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Bethlehem (Arabic بيت لحم Bayt Laḥm ▶ (help·info) "house of meat"; Standard Hebrew בית לחם "house of bread", Bet léḥem / Bet láḥem; Tiberian Hebrew Bêṯ léḥem / Bêṯ lāḥem) (Greek: Βηθλεέμ) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank and a hub ...

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Galileans (or Galilæans) were members of a fanatical sect (Zealots), followers of Judas of Galilee, who fiercely resented the taxation of the Romans, and whose violence contributed to induce the latter to vow the extermination of the whole race. More generically, a Galilean is an inhabitant of Galilee. Galilean, as an adjective, describes some aspects of mathematics or astronomy associated with Galileo: see for example Galilean moons and Galilean transformation. This article incorporates text from the public domain ...

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Usha was a city in the Western part of Galilee. It is noteworthy because in the 2nd Century (c. 135), the Sanhedrin, or rabbinic court, was moved from Jabneh in Judea to Usha, and then from Usha back to Jabneh, and a second time from Jabneh to Usha. The final settlement in Usha indicates the ultimate spiritual supremacy of Galilee over Judea, the latter having become depopulated by the war of Hadrian. Usha was also important because one of the pupils of Rabbi Akiba resided there, including Judah ...

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(Italicized names are of titular princes.) Tancred, Prince of Galilee (1099–1101) Hugh of St. Omer (1105–?) Gervaise de Bazoches Joscelin I of Courtenay Tancred, Prince of Galilee (1109–1112) Renier Brus Elinard de Bures Simon Guarmond Walter I Brisebarre Hugh of Tiberias Raymond III of Tripoli (1152–1187) and his wife Eschiva de Bures William Fulk Eudes of Montbeliard See also:

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The Sanhedrin (Hebrew: סנהדרין; probably from the Greek συνέδριον, synedrion, meaning "sitting together", hence "assembly") is the name given to the council of seventy-one Jewish sages who constituted the supreme court and legislative body in Judea during the Roman period. The make-up of the council included a president (Nasi), vice president (Av Beit Din), and sixty-nine general members who all sat in the form of a semi-circle when in session. The constitution of seventy-one was to preclude the possibility of a ...

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Herod Antipas (short for Antipatros) was an ancient leader (tetrarch, meaning "ruler of a quarter") of Galilee and Perea. Born in 20 BC, Antipas was a son of Herod the Great, who had become king of Israel; and Malthace, who was from Samaria. He and full-brother Archelaus and his half-brother Herod Philip were educated in Rome, as kind of a friendly hostage situation in order to maintain Herod the Great's compliance with Augustus Caesar. (Herod the Great was also notorious for killing family members, having killed his old ...

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4 BC - Events. Archelaus becomes ethnarch of Judea. Herod Antipas becomes king of the Galilee 4 BC - Births. Jesus (d. circa 30) Jesus' birthday was probably not Christmas as celebrated. Some believe it to have been in September, while others point to a Spring date. 4 BC - Deaths. Herod the Great Category: 4 BC ...

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Armand de Périgord (or Hermann de Pierre-Grosse) (1178–1247?) was a descendant of the Counts of Périgord and Grand Master of the Knights Templar. He was master of Province des Pouilles and Sicily 1205–1232. In 1232 he was elected Grand Master of the Templars. He organized attacks on Cana, Safita, and Sephoria, and against the Muslim positions around the Sea of Galilee. All of these expeditions ...

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20 - Events. First year of Dihuang era of the Chinese Xin Dynasty. Tiberias is built on the Sea of Galilee by Herod Antipas, in honour of Tiberius. Galba is a Roman praetor. Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus becomes a consul 20 - Births. 20 - Deaths. Hillel the Elder, Talmudic scholar, his school and teachings were the most influential in the Talmud. Vipsania Agrippina, wife of Gaius Asin ...

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In Christianity, the First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament. Doubt has been cast on the Second Epistle of Peter since early times, but this First Epistle was accepted with less difficulty into the Biblical canon. First Epistle of Peter - Authorship and date. The author identifies himself in the opening verse as "Peter, an apostle of Jesus", but modern scholars are skeptical that the apostle Simon Peter, the fisherman on the Sea of Galilee, actually wrote it, because of th ...

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The Sea of Galilee lies on the ancient Via Maris which linked Egypt with the northern empires. The Greeks, Hasmoneans, and Romans founded flourishing towns and settlements here: Gadara, Hippos, Tiberias and others. The first-century historian Flavius Josephus was so impressed by the area that he wrote, "One may call this place the ambition of Nature." Josephus also reported a thriving fishing industry at this time, w ...

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1112 - Events. The people of Laon, France, proclaim a commune and murder their bishop Salzwedel, Germany is founded The German state of Baden is founded Afonso I becomes Count of Portugal Otto of Ballenstedt is made Duke of Saxony by Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor 1112 - Births. 1112 - Deaths. October 5 - Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler Tancred, Prince of Galilee, cru ...

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Herod was the name of several members of the Herodian dynasty of Roman Judea: Herod the Great (c. 74–4 BC), king of Judea. He reconstructed the Second Temple in Jerusalem and is described as ordering the Massacre of the Innocents in the Gospel of Matthew. Herod Archelaus (23 BC–c. AD 18), king of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea. Herod Philip (4 BC–AD 34), king of Ituraea and Trachonitis. Herod Antipas (20 BC–c. AD 40), king of Galilee and Peraea. He is described in the New Testament as orderi

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The Jezreel Valley (Hebrew: עמק יזרעאל; "Emek Yizrael", also known as the Plain of Esdraelon) is a large plain and inland valley in the north of Israel. It takes its name from the city of Jezreel, located on a low hill on the southern edge and overlooking the valley. Jezreel Valley is part of the Lower Galilee in the North District of Israel. The Jezreel Valley is the location of a number of important settlements both ancient and modern. The ancient city of Megiddo is located in the south and west of the valley. The largest modern settlement in the Jezreel Valley is the city ...

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