Al-Butaymat
Al-Butaymat | |
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Al-Butaymat | |
Arabic | >البطيمات |
Also spelled | Buteimat, al-Buteimat |
Subdistrict | Haifa |
Coordinates | 32°33′11.39″N 35°5′37.53″E / 32.5531639°N 35.0937583°ECoordinates: 32°33′11.39″N 35°5′37.53″E / 32.5531639°N 35.0937583°E |
Palestine grid | 159/217 |
Population | 110 (1945) |
Date of depopulation | May 1948[1] |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
Current localities | Gal'ed[2] Former: Regavim[3] |
Al-Butaymat (Arabic: البطيمات, El Buteimât) was a Palestinian Arab village the Haifa Subdistrict, located 31 kilometers (19 mi) southeast of Haifa. In 1945, the village had a population of 110.[4] It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948 under the Battle of Mishmar HaEmek.
Umm el Buteimât is mentioned in the Survey of Western Palestine (1881), where its name is translated as "the place with the terebinths."[5]
References
- ↑ Morris, 2004, p. xviii village #156. Also gives cause of depopulation. Second cause indicated in brackets by a question mark.
- ↑ Khalidi, 1992, p. 157.
- ↑ Morris, 2004, p. xx, settlement #15, July, 1948. Moved to the land of Qannir in 1949.
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 47
- ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 154
Bibliography
- Avneri, Aryeh L. (1984). The claim of dispossession: Jewish land-settlement and the Arabs, 1878-1948 (Illustrated ed.). Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-0-87855-964-0.
- Benvenisti, Meron (2002). Sacred landscape: the buried history of the Holy Land since 1948 (Illustrated ed.). University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-23422-2.
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 71)
- 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.
- Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Yazbak, Maḥmūd (1998). Haifa in the late Ottoman period, 1864-1914: a Muslim town in transition (Illustrated ed.). BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-11051-9.
External links
- Welcome To al-Butaymat
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- al-Butaymat from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
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