Hussniya (الحسينية)

Place

Museum of the Palestinian People (MPP)

Place Name

Hussniya (الحسينية)

Place Description

The village was located on a slightly elevated hill in the southwestern corner of the al-Hula Plain. It stood along the eastern side of a highway that led to Safad and Tiberias. The Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi (d. 1228) noted its ancient buildings and praised one of them, which he claimed had originally been a temple and perhaps was built by Solomon. The village stood on a slightly elevated hill in the southwestern corner of the al-Hula Plain and supported livestock raising and agriculture, although PalQuest's entry combines some land statistics with nearby Tulayl.