Daliyat al-Karmel
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Coordinates: 32°41′35″N 35°02′58″E / 32.69306°N 35.04944°ECoordinates: 32°41′35″N 35°02′58″E / 32.69306°N 35.04944°E | |
Destrict | Haifa |
Govrenment | |
• Teep | Local cooncil |
• Head of Municipality | Carmel Nasreddin |
Area | |
• Total | 15.561 km2 (6.008 sq mi) |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 15,500 |
• Density | 1,000/km2 (2,600/sq mi) |
Daliyat al-Karmel (Hebrew: דלית אל כרמל Arabic: دَالِيَةِ ٱلْكَرْمِل) is a Druze local cooncil in the Haifa Destrict o Israel, locatit aroond 20 km sootheast o Haifa.
The toun wis gien local cooncil status in 1951. Housomeivver, in 2003 it wis mergit wi nearbi Isfiya tae create Carmel Ceety.[1] In 2008, the commonties became separate ance again.
The toun is famous for its colorful mercat, which is alive wi visitors aw week lang an especially on Seturdays.
The shrine o Abu Ibrahim, whom the Druze consider thair prophet, is in the auldest pairt o the toun.
Close bi, is the hame o Sir Laurence Oliphant, who livit thare 120 years ago wi his wife Alice, an his secretar Naftali Herz Imber, the author o the naitional anthem o Israel, Hatikva
Mülinen, Egbert Friedrich von 1908, Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Karmels "Separateabdruck aus der Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palëstina-Vereins Band XXX (1907) Seite 117-207 und Band XXXI (1908) Seite 1-258." ("Daliet el-kirmil": p. 242 ff. )
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