Qiryat Atta

Qiryat Atta is also spelled as Kiryat Ata is a town within the Haifa District of Israel. Also nonetheless regarded by means of its former call of Kfar Ata, in 2017 it had a population of 57,518. The gift metropolis is constructed over the web page of the Arab village Kufrata, a site surveyed, but no longer excavated. It is concept by using archaeologists Mordechai Aviam and Dan Barag to be the Capharatha referred to with the aid of Josephus inside the Lower Galilee, one of several perspectives tentatively recognized for the website. You can come here and explore this place.

Archaeological surveys at Khirbet Sharta inside the northeast part of the metropolis revealed strains of habitation dating to the Bronze, Iron, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and Mamluk eras. Ceramics from the Byzantine technology had been located here.In 1283 it became stated as part of the area of the Crusaders, in keeping with the hudna among the Crusaders and the Mamluk sultan Qalawun. At the time it was referred to as Kafrata. Incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, Kufrata seemed inside the census of 1596, located within the Nahiya of Acca, part of Safad Sanjak. The population became 15 households, all Muslim.