Nazareth

Israel

Nazareth, in the Lower Galilee, is the largest city of Israel's Northern District and a predominantly Arab city, roughly two-thirds Muslim and one-third Christian. Archaeology shows that it was a small Jewish village in the Roman and Byzantine periods. The Gospels make it the childhood home of Jesus, called 'Jesus of Nazareth', and of his family, and Catholic tradition places the Annunciation there; the modern Basilica of the Annunciation is among the largest churches in the Middle East. Under Ottoman rule the town grew in the eighteenth century, and churches, schools and monasteries were built in the late nineteenth. It came under British control at the end of the First World War and surrendered to Israeli forces in July 1948.

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