Damun

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Damun (Arabic: الدامون, romanized: al-Damūn), was a Palestinian Arab village located 11.5 kilometres (7.1 mi) from the Mediterranean port city of Acre that was depopulated during 1948 Arab-Israeli war. In 1945, Damun had 1,310 inhabitants, most of whom were Muslim and the remainder Christians. Damun bordered the Na'amin River (Belus River), which the village's inhabitants used as a source of irrigation and drinking water from installed wells. Excavations at the site has shown potsherds dating from the Late Bronze Age, up to and including Early Islamic, Crusader, Mamluk and Ottoman times. It might be the village Damun in lower Galilee, noted in Roman times. Damun is mentioned in 11th-century Arabic and Persian sources. Local tradition then identified the village as containing the tomb of the prophet Dhul-Kifl, who is twice mentioned in the Qur'an. Despite general Islamic tradition claiming the tomb to be in al-Kifl near Najaf or Kifl Hares near Nablus, Nasir Khusraw, who visited the region in 1047, wrote "I reached a small cave, which is in Damun where I performed the ziyarat too, for it is said to be the tomb of Dhul-Kifl." After the Crusader invasion of Palestine in 1099, Damun became part of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and was referred to by the Crusaders as Damar or Damor. It remained in their hands when most of Palestine was conquered by the Ayyubids under Sultan Saladin in 1187.