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Kibbutz Dan
Dan ( he, דָּן) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the north of the Hula Valley, at the foot of Mount Hermon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. As of it had a population of . History Kibbutz Dan was founded in 1939 by Jewish farmers from Transylvania as part of the Wall and tower campaign. It is affiliated with the Hashomer Hatzair movement. In 1947, the population was 340. Dan was one of two villages established in honour of Menachem Ussishkin. It was named after the Israelite town of " Dan" mentioned in 1 Kings 12:29, 1 Samuel 3:20 and Genesis 14:14, and which has been identified with the nearby Tel Dan. Kibbutz Dan is located in the territory of the Israelite tribe of Dan (Joshua 19:47). It suffered heavy losses during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, bearing the brunt of the Syrian invasion. File:דן.-JNF033828.jpeg, Dan under construction 1940 File:דן - מראה-JNF034498.jpeg, Dan 1940 File:Kibbutz Dan.jpg, Palmach mortar train ...
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Hungarians, also known as Magyars ( ; hu, magyarok ), are a nation and ethnic group native to Hungary () and historical Hungarian lands who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language. The Hungarian language belongs to the Uralic language family. There are an estimated 15 million ethnic Hungarians and their descendants worldwide, of whom 9.6 million live in today's Hungary. About 2–3 million Hungarians live in areas that were part of the Kingdom of Hungary before the Treaty of Trianon in 1920 and are now parts of Hungary's seven neighbouring countries, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria. Significant groups of people with Hungarian ancestry live in various other parts of the world, most of them in the United