The New Student's Reference Work/Esdraelon

Esdraelon (ĕs′ drȧ′ ē-lŏn) or Plain of Jezreel, a valley in Palestine, extending along the River Kishon from Mt. Hermon to Mt. Carmel.  It is a fertile plain, and is in the shape of a triangle, its longest side measuring 18 miles in length.  Here Gideon defeated the Midianites, and in 1799 the French under Napoleon conquered the Turks.  As late as 1867 the plain was annually overrun and wasted by the Arabs, but is now in a high state of cultivation.  See Haifa, by Laurence Oliphant.