 In 945 , the Hamdanids of Aleppo and the Ikhshidids fought a battle in Lajjun . It resulted in an Ikhshidid victory putting a halt to Hamdanid expansion southward under the leadership of Sayf al @-@ Dawla . The Jerusalemite geographer , al @-@ Muqaddasi , wrote in 985 that Lajjun was " a city on the frontier of Palestine , and in the mountain country ... it is well situated and is a pleasant place " . Moreover , it was the center of a nahiya ( subdistrict ) of Jund al @-@ Urdunn , which also included the towns of Nazareth and Jenin . 
