Wikipedia:WikiProject Palestine/Lajjun

al-Lajjun (Arabic: اللجّون) was a Palestinian Arab village located 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) northwest of Jenin.

Geography

The village stood on a lightly elevated hill on the southern western edge of the Marj ibn Amer Plain, on the two banks of Wadi al-Lajjun. Jenin and the plain itself were visible from the village. It was bordered from the west and south by the Carmel Mountains, and by Tall al-Mutsallem (to the northeast), and by Tall al-Asmar (to the northwest). The village, which was linked by secondary roads to the highway of Jenin-Haifa, and to other highway that led southwest to the town of Umm el- Fahm, lay close to the junctions of the two highways.

Sources

• al-Lajjun in Early Muslim and Crusader era
• Lajjun in Ottoman times
• Significance of Israel's capture of Lajjun
• History and description of Lajjun
• Welcome to al-Lajjun Palestine Remembered.
• Lajjun 1880s