Dothan Valley

{{coord|32.43|35.22|display=title|format=dms|scale:500000}} '''Dothan Valley''' or '''Sahl Arraba''' ({{langx|he|עמק דותן}} ''Emek Dotan''; {{langx|ar|سهل عرّابة}} ''Sahl ʻArrābah'', Arraba plain) is an alluvial plain<ref>{{Cite book |last=Zerṭāl |first=Ādām |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vt-IvRhCEyYC&pg=PA35&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjaurGRpYWRAxXVQqQEHV3FPRgQ6AF6BAgMEAM#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=The Manasseh Hill Country Survey: The Shechem Syncline |date=2004-01-01 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-13756-1 |language=en}}</ref> in the northern West Bank. The region is about eleven kilometers long and four kilometers wide. There are several Palestinian towns located in and around the valley, including Arrabah, Bir al-Basha, Burqin, Yabad, Qabatiya and Kufeirit.<ref name="Doumani4">''[http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft896nb5pc&chunk.id=s2.1.5&toc.depth=1&toc.id=s1.1.6&brand=eschol Rediscovering Palestine, Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900: Egyptian rule, 1831-1840]'' (1995) Doumani, Beshara. University of California Press.</ref> There is also an Israeli settlement there - Mevo Dotan.

==In the Bible== Dothan Valley is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the site where Joseph was sold by his brothers.<ref>[http://homepages.gac.edu/~avaughn/Rel260/presentations/2001/samaria.htm Geography of the Samarian Hill Country]{{deadlink|date=July 2025}} Dahl, Andrew</ref>

==See also== *Dothan (ancient city)

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Category:Valleys of the West Bank Category:Hebrew Bible valleys Category:Book of Genesis locations