Imwas
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Imwas or Emmaus (), known in classical times as Nicopolis (), is a former Palestinian village ethnically cleansed by Israel, located southeast of the city of Ramla and from Jerusalem in the Latrun salient of the West Bank. It is traditionally (possibly from as early as the 3rd century, but probably incorrectly) identified with the biblical Emmaus. In 1967, the village's population was expelled and its buildings razed by Israeli forces as part of the Naksa during the Six-Day War.
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- Etymology
- History
- Classical antiquity
- Early Muslim period
- Rashidun and Umayyad periods
- Abbasid and Fatimid periods
- Crusader period
- Mamluk period
- Ottoman period
- Early Ottoman period
- Late Ottoman period
- British Mandate period
- Jordanian period
- Destruction and expulsion of residents
- Aftermath and the site today
- Artistic representations
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Imwas or Emmaus (), known in classical times as Nicopolis (), is a former Palestinian village ethnically cleansed by Israel, located southeast of the city of Ramla and from Jerusalem in the Latrun salient of the West Bank. It is traditionally (possibly from as early as the 3rd century, but probably incorrectly) identified with the biblical Emmaus. In 1967, the village's population was expelled and its buildings razed by Israeli forces as part of the Naksa during the Six-Day War.
After the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, Imwas fell under Jordanian rule. Its population at the time was predominantly Muslim although there was a Palestinian Christian minority. During the 1967 Six-Day War, IDF troops ethnically cleansed Emwas and the village structures were destroyed, forming a part of the larger Naksa. Imwas and the area surrounding Latrun were unilaterally 'annexed' by Israel along with the neighbouring villages of Yalo and Bayt Nuba. Today the area of the former village lies within Canada Park, which was established by the Jewish National Fund in 1973.
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