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Senjel
Sinjil ( ar, سنجل) is a Palestinian people, Palestinian town northeast of Ramallah in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank. Location Sinjil is located north-east of Ramallah. It is bordered by Turmus ayya to the east, Al Lubban ash Sharqiya to the north, 'Abwein and Jilijliya to the west, and Al Mazra'a ash Sharqiya to the south. Sinjil is located in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate of the West Bank. History Sherds from the Ancient Near East#Middle Bronze Age, Intermediate Bronze Age, Bronze Age, Byzantine Empire, Byzantine, Crusader states, Crusader/Ayyubid dynasty, Ayyubid and Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo), Mamluk eras have been found.Finkelstein et al, 1997, pp. 633 Tombs at Sinjil from the Bronze Age#Near East timeline, Middle Bronze Age have yielded an array of metal weapons. The village is thought to have taken its name from the Crusader states, Crusader town of Saint-Gilles, Gard, St. Gilles, being the home town of France, French Count Ra ... [...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] |
