Nasir ad-Din, Palestine
village in Tiberias, Mandatory Palestine
Nasir ad-Dīn (Arabic: نصر الدين; also Naṣr ad-Din) was a small Palestinian Arab village 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) southwest of Tiberias, on the crest of a slope that overlooks the Sea of Galilee. The village had several springs to the east, south, and southeast. In the 1931 British census 179 people lived there, decreasing to 90 in a 1945 census. Nasir ad-Din and nearby al-Manara were in the same jurisdiction with 4,185 dunams of land, most of which was allocated to cereals.
In the 1948 Palestine war, the village was destroyed and its residents expelled as part of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion.
Etymology
According to local legend, the village was named after a shrine dedicated to Nasir ad-Din, an Ayyubid general who died while fighting the Crusaders and buried to the north of the village. A kilometer to the west is the shrine for another Muslim soldier who died fighting the Crusaders, named Sheikh al-Qaddumi. "Nasir al-Deen" and "Sheikh Qadumi" were mentioned separately in the context of the 1948 Palestine war.
History and archeology
Antiquity
Archeological excavations have shown that the place was inhabited in the Hellenistic period, and that a major settlement stood there during the Roman period, in the 2nd to 4th century CE. Israeli archaeologist Uzi Leibner however argued that the site was abandoned in the late third century, due to the rarity of pottery shards from that period and a complete absence of shards from the fourth century. The ancient settlement is usually identified with Jewish Bethmaus (Bet Ma'on).
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