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. [1]
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- Gallery
- Contemporary maps showing Haifa's location before 1761
- Later maps showing "Haifa el-Atika"
- See also
- References
It lies at an elevation of up to 50 metres, immediately south of the Rambam Health Care Campus, [2] 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. [3]
Remnants of the old city walls of Haifa, built in 1761, are located here. Most of the area, however, is used for modern administrative and commercial development. [4]
