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The 1948 Palestinian expulsion from Lydda and Ramle, was the expulsion of 50,000 to 70,000 [1] Palestinian Arabs when Israeli troops captured the towns in July that year. The military action occurred within the context of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The operation included the events of the Lydda Massacre and the Lydda Death March.
Most of the state is considered part of the Upland South, and the eastern third is part of Appalachia. [ 1 ] Tennessee covers roughly 42,143 square miles (109,150 km 2), of which 926 square miles (2,400 km 2), or 2.2%, is water. It is the 16th smallest state in terms of land area. The state is about 440 miles (710 km) long from east to west and ...
The Great Smoky Mountains (Cherokee: ᎡᏆ ᏚᏧᏍᏚ ᏙᏓᎸ, Equa Dutsusdu Dodalv) are a mountain range rising along the Tennessee – North Carolina border in the southeastern United States. They are a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains and form part of the Blue Ridge Physiographic Province. The range is sometimes called the Smoky ...
The three regions are geographically and culturally distinct. [9] East Tennessee's landscape is dominated by the Appalachian mountain chain, including the Great Smoky Mountains on the eastern border of the state, the ridge-and-valley region where East Tennessee's principal cities (Knoxville, Chattanooga, and the Tri-Cities) are located, and the rugged Cumberland Mountains.
The Sharon valley is mentioned in an ancient Egyptian stele of Amenhotep II, [1] and as the Sharon field containing both Jaffa and Dor on the Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II.. The Plain of Sharon is mentioned in the Bible (1 Chronicles 5:16, 27:29; Book of Isaiah 33:9, 35:2, 65:10), including the famous reference to the enigmatic "Rose of Sharon" (Song of Songs 2:1).
Ramla (pictured in 1895) was founded by Sulayman at the start of the 8th century and became the capital of his district. The Umayyad prince and governor of Palestine, Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, founded Ramla as the seat of his administration, [6] [7] [8] replacing Lydda, the Muslims' original provincial capital.
Unaka Range. Unicoi Mountains. Categories: East Tennessee. Landforms of Tennessee. Mountain ranges of the United States by state. Subranges of the Appalachian Mountains.
The Tennessee Valley is the drainage basin of the Tennessee River and is largely within the U.S. state of Tennessee. It stretches from southwest Kentucky to north Alabama and from northeast Mississippi to the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina. The border of the valley is known as the Tennessee Valley Divide.