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Place details
- Locality
- מועצה אזורית עמק המעיינות
- Region
- מחוז הצפון
- Country
- ישראל
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Jisr al Majami
- Hydroelectric power station
- Workers' village
- 1947/8 diplomacy
- 1948 war
- 1949 armistice line
- Peace treaty and property rights
- Peace park
- 1997 massacre
- See also
- References
thumb|PEC letter naming Naharaim and Tel-Or. thumb|1935 Palestine Electric Corporation General Scheme for the area around the First Jordan Power House thumb|Nahariyim/Baqoura region in 1953 and now
Naharayim (; ), historically the Jisr Majami area (; ), is the area where the Yarmouk River flows into the Jordan River. It was the site of the "First Jordan Hydro-Electric Power House", constructed between 1927–33, and located near an ancient Roman bridge known as Jisr Majami. The site was named by the Palestine Electric Company which assigned "proper names" to the "different quarters of our Jordan Works", one of these being the "works as a whole including the labour camp" to be called "Naharaim", and another being the site of the "Power House and the adjoining staff quarters, offices" to be called "Tel Or" (; ). Most of the plant was situated in the Emirate of Transjordan and stretched from the northern canal near Kibbutz Ashdot Ya'akov in northern Mandatory Palestine to the Jisr el-Majami in the south.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Baqoura” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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