Al-Rihaniyya
This article is about the Palestinian village depopulated in 1948. For the Circassian village in modern day Israel, see Rehaniya.
Al-Rihaniyya | |
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Al-Rihaniyya | |
Also spelled | Rihaniya, -al[1] |
Subdistrict | Haifa |
Coordinates | 32°37′11.7″N 35°05′12.65″E / 32.619917°N 35.0868472°ECoordinates: 32°37′11.7″N 35°05′12.65″E / 32.619917°N 35.0868472°E |
Palestine grid | 158/225 |
Population | 240 (1945) |
Date of depopulation | Not known[1] |
Al-Rihaniyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 30, 1948 as part of the battle of Mishmar HaEmek. It was located 25 km southeast of Haifa and 3 km northwest of Wadi al-Mileh.
In 1945 the village had a population of 240. al-Rihaniyya had an elementary school for boys founded in 1888, but it was closed during the British Mandate period.
References
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 (PDF). Government of Palestine.
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas (PDF). Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
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