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Bait Jala
Beit Jala ( ar, ) is a Palestinian Christian town in the Bethlehem Governorate of the West Bank. Beit Jala is located 10 km south of Jerusalem, on the western side of the Hebron road, opposite Bethlehem, at altitude. In 2017, Beit Jala had 13,367 inhabitants according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. About 80% of the population were Palestinian Christians, Christians (mostly Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, Greek Orthodox) and about 20% Muslims. History Claude Reignier Conder, Conder and Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Kitchener identified Beit Jala with ''Galem'' or ''Gallim'' of the Septuagint.Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP III, p20/ref> Byzantine period A crypt, dating to the 5th or 6th century C.E. was located under the ''Church of St. Nicolas'' in Beit Jala.Pringle, 1993, pp9395 Crusader period In the Crusader states, Crusader era, the village was called Apezala, and the Church of Saint Nicholas was possibly rebuilt during that time. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic Script
The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used writing system in the world by number of countries using it or a script directly derived from it, and the third-most by number of users (after the Latin and Chinese scripts). The script was first used to write texts in Arabic, most notably the Quran, the holy book of Islam. With the religion's spread, it came to be used as the primary script for many language families, leading to the addition of new letters and other symbols. Such languages still using it are: Persian (Farsi/Dari), Malay ( Jawi), Uyghur, Kurdish, Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Sindhi, Balti, Balochi, Pashto, Lurish, Urdu, Kashmiri, Rohingya, Somali and Mandinka, Mooré among others. Until the 16th century, it was also used for some Spanish texts, and—prior to the language reform in 1928—it was the writing system of Turkish. The script is written from right to left in a cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
