Abirim
{{Short description|Community settlement in northern Israel}}
{{Infobox Israel village
| name = Abirim
| hebname = אבירים
| meaning = Knights
| image = Abirim 2007.jpg
| caption =
| foundation = 1980
| founded_by =
| country = {{ISR}}
| district = north
| council = Ma'ale Yosef
| affiliation =
| population = {{Israel populations|Abbirim}}
| popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}}
| population_footnotes={{Israel populations|reference}}
| pushpin_map= Israel northwest#Israel |pushpin_mapsize=250
| coordinates = {{coord|33|2|22|N|35|17|15|E|display=inline,title}}
| website = [https://www.abirim.info abirim.info]
Abirim ({{langx|he|אבירים||Knights}}), also known as Mitzpe Abirim, is a community settlement in northern Israel. Located in the Upper Galilee, three kilometres from Ma'alot-Tarshiha, it falls under the jurisdiction of Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Abbirim}}.{{Israel populations|reference}} It is located in the middle of a natural oak forest bordering the Nahal Kziv nature reserve.
History
Abirim was established in 1980 on land that had belonged to Fassuta prior to 1948.Survey of Palestine, Map sheet 17-27 Tarbikha, 1:20,000, 1948. It was initially named "Eder" and then renamed to "Abirim" after the nearby ruins of Burj Misr (Arabic: "Egyptian Tower"), which was renamed to Horbat Metsad Abirim (Hebrew: "Ruin of the Fortress of the Knights") in 1957.{{Cite book |title=All that remains: the Palestinian villages occupied and depopulated by Israel in 1948 |date=1992 |publisher=Institute for Palestine Studies |isbn=978-0-88728-224-9 |editor-last=Khalidi |editor-first=Walid |location=Washington, D.C |pages=12-13}}Government of Israel, ילקוט הפרסומים (Gazette) number 536, 14 May 1957, p. 856. The age and original purpose of the ruins is unknown; proposals range from a Crusader stronghold to a mausoleum from the Hellenistic period (4th–3rd centuries BCE).{{cite journal |author1= Asher Ovadieh |author2=Yinon Shivtiel | title = The caves in the cliff shelters of Keziv Stream (Nahal Keziv) and the relief of 'The Man in the Wall' | year = 2016 | journal = Liber Annuus | volume = 66 | pages = 351–375 | doi = 10.1484/J.LA.4.2018015}}{{cite book | author = Denys Pringle | title = Secular Buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem | year = 1997 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | page = 43}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.abirim.info/ Official website]
{{Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council}}
{{Authority control}}
Category:Community settlements
Category:Populated places established in 1980