Haifa el-Atika
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Haifa el-Atika (Arabic:حيفا العتيقة; Hebrew:חיפה אל-עתיקה; lit. “Old Haifa”), also known as Medieval Old Haifa, is a neighborhood in the central part of Haifa, Israel, and the location of Haifa prior to its resettlement in 1761 by Zahir al-Umar. It is located south of Bat Galim and east of Kiryat Eliezer, not far from the shore of the Haifa Bay.
It lies at an elevation of up to 50 metres, immediately south of the Rambam Health Care Campus, in an area adjacent to Haifa Bay and bounded by Cheil ha-Yam Street and Derekh Yafo. The neighborhood covers an area of 0.16 square kilometres and has no registered permanent population.
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Contemporary maps showing Haifa's location before 1761
- Sourie Ou Terre Saincte Moderne, Philippe de La Rue, 1657
- Plan du Mont Carmel, Jean Doubdan, 1666 (Acre is #13 on the left of the bay, Haifa is #11 on the right)
- A Map of the Holy Land and Syria, Richard Pococke, 1745
- Plan De La Rade De St. Jean D'Acre a la Coste de Syrie, Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, published 1764
Later maps showing "Haifa el-Atika"
- Palestine Exploration Fund, 1875
- Plan of Haifa, Frederick Palmer, 1923
- Survey of Palestine (1:10,000), 1929
- Survey of Palestine (1:20,000), 1932
See also
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