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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 122. Not illustrated. Chapters: Tzippori, Alonei Abba, Hanaton, Bethlehem of Galilee, Gvat, Beit She'arim National Park, Mizra, Nahalal, Ein Dor, Merhavia, Balfouria, Harduf, Yifat, Ginegar, Gazit, Dovrat, Tel Adashim, Kfar Gidon, Kfar Hahoresh, Kfar Yehoshua, Hapoel Balfouria F.c., Hoshaya, Adi, Israel, Timrat, Shimshit, Sarid, Beit Zaid, Hayogev, Sde Ya'akov, Ramat David, Ahuzat Barak, Kfar Barukh, Alonim, Alon Hagalil, Manshiya Zabda, Givat Zaid, Givat Ela, Hasolelim, Suweid Hamira. Excerpt: Tzippori (Hebrew: ), also known as Sepphoris, Dioceserea and Saffuriya (Arabic: , also transliterated Safurriya and Suffurriye) is located in the central Galilee region, 6 kilometers (4 mi) north-northwest of Nazareth, in modern-day Israel. The site holds a rich and diverse historical and architectural legacy that includes Assyrian, Hellenistic, Judean, Babylonian, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, Crusader, Arabic and Ottoman influences. Interest on the part of Biblical archaeologists is related to the belief in Christian tradition that the parents of the Virgin Mary, Anna and Joachim, were natives of Sepphoris, which at the time was a Hellenized town. Other notable structures include a Roman theater, two early Christian Churches, a Crusader fortress that was renovated by Daher El-Omar in the 18th century, and some 40 mosaics. Tzippori once served as a center of Jewish religious and spiritual life in the Galilee and remains of a 6th century synagogue have been uncovered in the lower section of the city. In the 7th century, it came under the rule of the Arab caliphates like much of the rest of Palestine. Successive Arab and Islamic imperial authorities ruled the area until the end of the first World War I, with a brief interruption during the Crusades. Until the forcible expulsion of its inhabitants by Israeli forces in 1948-1949, Saffuriya was a...
