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Ash-Shunah al-Janubiyah (), also Shoonah Janoobiyah, South Shuna or Southern Shouneh, etc., is a populated place in
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,
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, in the eastern Jordan Valley, not far from the place where the
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flows into the
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. The town stretches along the Jordan Valley Highway (HW 65) north of the intersection with Route 437 (
King Hussein Bridge The Allenby Bridge (), known officially in Jordan as the King Hussein Bridge (), is a bridge that crosses the Jordan River near the city of Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the town of Al-Karameh in Jordan. The bridge is currently ...
Road), east of the Allenby (or King Hussein) Bridge and border crossing. It is the seat of the . South Shuna is the location of the cultural heritage site known as Shunet Nimrin / Shunat Nimrin. The
Tell Nimrin Beth-Nimrah or Beth-nimrah (), also called Nimrin and Bethennabris, was an ancient city in Transjordan (region), Transjordan, which features prominently the history of ancient Israel and Judah. Tell Nimrin has been identified by Nelson Glueck as th ...
archaeological site is within South Shuna.Environmental and Social Considerations in Detailed Planning Survey. The North Shuna-South Shuna Road Project (NSSRP)
Ahrens, Alexander
"From the Jordan Valley Lowlands to the Transjordanian Highlands: Preliminary Report of the Wadi Shuʿayb Archaeological Survey Project 2016"
in:
Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan The Department of Antiquities () is a government department in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan with responsibility for archaeological research and cultural heritage management. It is part of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The Departme ...
59 (2018), pp. 631-648. Via academia.edu, accessed 22 Jan 2022.
There is a to commemorate the victory at the
Battle of Karameh The Battle of Karameh () was a 15-hour military engagement between Israel and the combined forces of Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in the Jordanian border town of Karameh during the War of Attrition on 21 March 1968. ...
.


Etymology

''Shunah'' means "barn", ''janub'' is Arabic for "south",Rajki, András (2005)
''Arabic Dictionary with Etymologies''
Accessed 5 September 2018.
and '' al-janubiyah'' means "southern". Therefore, ''Ash-Shunah al-Janubiyah'' is often rendered in English as "South Shuna",The North Shuna-South Shuna Road Project
Japan International Cooperation Agency The Japan International Cooperation Agency (), also known as JICA'','' is a governmental agency that delivers the bulk of Official Development Assistance (ODA) for the government of Japan. It is chartered with assisting economic and social gr ...
(JICA). Accessed 27 Jan 2022.
or "Southern Shuna" Southern Shuna to Dead Sea Morning Ride
Jordan Tourism Board (JTB). Accessed 27 Jan 2022.
with another Shunah town at the opposite, northern end of the Jordan Valley being known as North Shuna. Shunah is also spelled Shuneh and Shuna. The article ''al'' undergoes assimilation to the following consonant in specific cases, when ''al'' is sounded ''ash'', also spelled ''esh'', (See
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).
''al-Shunah'' becoming ''ash-Shunah/esh-Shuneh''. For convenience, the definite article at the beginning of place-names may be dropped, yielding here simply ''Shunah al-Janubiyah''. South Shuna is also historically known as Shunat Nimrin. Nimrin is the name of nearby
Tell Nimrin Beth-Nimrah or Beth-nimrah (), also called Nimrin and Bethennabris, was an ancient city in Transjordan (region), Transjordan, which features prominently the history of ancient Israel and Judah. Tell Nimrin has been identified by Nelson Glueck as th ...
and the lower section of a wadi called Wadi Nimrin downstream from Tell Nimrin and Wadi Shu'eib upstream from the tell.


See also

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Al-Shunah al-Shamalyah Al-Shunah al-Shamalyah (, lit. North Shuna), is a town located in northwestern Jordan in the Irbid Governorate, overlooking the Jordan River Valley. The town sits at the intersection of Highway 65 and Highway 10, and lies just south of the con ...
(North Shuna), town at the northern end of Jordan's Jordan Valley


References

{{reflist Populated places in Balqa Governorate