Toscead betweox fadungum "Galilēa"

Galilee embraces more than one-third of present-day [[Israel]], extending "from Dan on the north, at the base of [[Mount Hermon]], to the ridges of Carmel and Gilboa on the south, and from the Jordan valley on the east away across the splendid plains of Jezreel and [[Akko]] to the shores of the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]] on the west."

[[Solomon]] rewarded Hiram for certain services rendered him by the gift of an upland plain among the mountains of [[Naphtali]]. Hiram was dissatisfied with the gift, and called it "the land of Cabul". The Jews called it ''Galil''. During the [[Hasmonaean]] period, in the midst of the decline of the [[Seleucid Empire]], the region was taken over by the Jews.

Modern Galilee is one of the few areas of Israel to have retained a large [[Palestinian]] [[Arab]] population after [[1948]], and has a particularly large number of [[Druze]]. Its main cities are [[Akko]] (Acre), [[Nazareth]], [[Safed]] (Tzfat), [[Afula]], [[Qiryat Shemona]] and [[Tiberias]]. The city of [[Haifa]], although outside the Galilee is serving as an adminstrational and commercial center for the Galilee.

== Sēo ēac ==

== Reference ==

[[CategoryFlocc:Isrāhel]]

[[CategoryFlocc:Eorþgemetcræft Isrāheles]]

[[CategoryFlocc:Hebrew Bible/Tanakh places]]

[[CategoryFlocc:Iesus]]

[[CategoryFlocc:Iudēisc stǣr]]

[[an:GalileyaGalilea]]