South Shuna is the location of the cultural heritage site known as Shunet Nimrin / Shunat Nimrin.[2] The Tell Nimrin archaeological site is within South Shuna.[3][4]
There is a Monument to the Unknown Soldier [ar] to commemorate the victory at the Battle of Karameh.
Etymology
Shunah means "barn",[5]janub is Arabic for "south",[6] and al-janubiyah means "southern". Therefore, Ash-Shunah al-Janubiyah is often rendered in English as "South Shuna",[7] or "Southern Shuna"[8] with another Shunah town at the opposite, northern end of the Jordan Valley being known as North Shuna.[7]
Shunah is also spelled Shuneh and Shuna.[2] The article al undergoes assimilation to the following consonant in specific cases, when al is sounded ash, also spelled esh,[9]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.[2]
South Shuna is also historically known as Shunat Nimrin.[2] Nimrin is the name of nearby Tell Nimrin and the lower section of a wadi called Wadi Nimrin downstream from Tell Nimrin and Wadi Shu'eib upstream from the tell.
See also
Al-Shunah al-Shamalyah (North Shuna), town at the northern end of Jordan's Jordan Valley
References
^2015 Jordan Census [ar], The Population of the Kingdom by Administrative Divisions, According to the General Census of Population and Housing result 2015 (search for "Shoonah Janoobiyah")
^Environmental and Social Considerations in Detailed Planning Survey. The North Shuna-South Shuna Road Project (NSSRP) (Japan International Cooperation Agency Archive)
^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 59 (2018), pp. 631-648. Via academia.edu, accessed 22 Jan 2022.
^Conder, C. R. (1889). The Survey of Eastern Palestine. Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, Archaeology, etc (PDF). London: The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. pp. 216, 218. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
^Rajki, András (2005). Arabic Dictionary with Etymologies. Accessed 5 September 2018.