Qaqun
Sign in to saveQaqun () was a Palestinian Arab village located northwest of the city of Tulkarm at the only entrance to Mount Nablus from the coastal Sharon plain.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Qaqun
- Settlement.native_name
- قاقون
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.other_name
- Quaquo, Caco, Chaco, Kâkôn, Kakoun
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Qaqun-fortress-18.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250
- Settlement.image_caption
- In the Crusader period, a castle called Caco or Cacho stood here, of which an 8.5m tower survives.
- Settlement.etymology
- from personal name
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.map_caption
- A series of historical maps of the area around Qaqun (click the buttons)
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 200
- Settlement.grid_name
- Palestine grid
- Settlement.grid_position
- 149/196
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Geopolitical entity
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Subdistrict
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Tulkarm
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 1970
- Elevation
- 25
- Image
- Agriculture, etc. Piles of millet seed on threshing floors of Kakoun on the Plain of Sharon LOC matpc.15640.jpg
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- point in time
- 1948-00-00
- Commons category
- Qaqun
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13 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Ancient and classical
- Crusader period
- Mamluk period
- Ottoman period
- British Mandate
- 1948 War
- After 1948
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Qaqun () was a Palestinian Arab village located northwest of the city of Tulkarm at the only entrance to Mount Nablus from the coastal Sharon plain.
Evidence of organized settlement in Qaqun dates back to the period of Assyrian rule in the region. Ruins of a Crusader and Mamluk castle still stand at the site. Qaqun was continuously inhabited by Arabs since at least as early as the Mamluk period and was depopulated during a military operation by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, after Iraqi troops used the town as a base for operations.
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