Mansurat al-Khayt
- See Mansura (disambiguation) for other sites with similar names.
Mansurat al-Khayt | |
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Mansurat al-Khayt | |
Also spelled | Mansurat al Kheit[1] |
Subdistrict | Safad |
Coordinates | 32°58′14.80″N 35°36′58.20″E / 32.9707778°N 35.6161667°ECoordinates: 32°58′14.80″N 35°36′58.20″E / 32.9707778°N 35.6161667°E |
Palestine grid | 207/264 |
Population | 200 (1945) |
Date of depopulation | January 18, 1948[1] |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Current localities | Kfar Hanassi?[2]However, Khalidi writes that it is on the land of Tuba[3] |
Mansurat al-Khayt was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on January 18, 1948. It was located 11.5 km east of Safed, 1 km west of the Jordan River.
In 1945, the village had a population of 200. The village was also known by Mansurat al-Hula to distinguish it from al-Mansura in Safed and had a shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh Mansur from which the village was named after.
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.
- Robinson, Edward; Smith, Eli (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. (p. 341, cited in Khalidi, 1992, p. 474)
External links
- Welcome To Mansurat al-Khayt
- SWP map 4, IAA
- SWP map 4, Wikimedia commons
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