 Lajjun ( Arabic : اللجّون , al @-@ Lajjûn ) was a Palestinian Arab village located 16 kilometers ( 9 @.@ 9 mi ) in Mandatory Palestine , northwest of Jenin and 1 kilometre ( 0 @.@ 62 mi ) south of the remains of the biblical city of Megiddo . Named after an early Roman legion camp in Syria Palaestina province called " Legio " , located at the village site , Lajjun 's history of habitation spanned some 2 @,@ 000 years . Under Abbasid rule it was the capital of a subdistrict , during Mamluk rule , it served as an important station in the postal route and during Ottoman rule , it was the capital of a district that bore its name . After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire towards the end of World War I , Lajjun and all of Palestine was placed under the administration of the British Mandate . The village was depopulated during the 1948 Arab @-@ Israeli War , when it was captured by Israel . Most of its residents subsequently fled and settled in the nearby city of Umm al @-@ Fahm . 
