Hittin
Hittin or Hittim ( Arabic حطين Hattin , DMG Ḥaṭṭīn ) was a small town that was part of the former British League of Nations mandate for Palestine eight kilometers north of Tiberias and wasconqueredby Israel in1948 during the first Arab-Israeli war .
In 1187 the Battle of Hittin took place near the so-called Horns of Hittin , in which the Crusaders were decisively defeated by Saladin .
In Hittin there is a shrine that is venerated as the burial place of Jitro . Since 1948 it has been an exclusively Druze sanctuary for Nabi Shuʿaib .
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Coordinates: 32 ° 48 ′ 27.3 " N , 35 ° 27 ′ 13.8" E