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Haifa Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine
The Haifa Subdistrict (قضاء حيفا, נפת חיפה) was one of the subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine. It covered the northern Mediterranean coast of regional Palestine, southwestern Galilee, and the Wadi Ara region. It was disintegrated after the British withdrawal from the area. Prior to and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War around half of the Arab localities were depopulated or destroyed. The entire district was captured by Israel and most of its Arab defenders were composed of the Arab Liberation Army and local militias. Its predecessor was Haifa Subdistrict, Ottoman Empire. The subdistrict was transformed into Haifa District, divided into Haifa Subdistrict and Hadera Subdistrict under Israel. Localities See also * Haifa District Haifa District ( he, מחוז חיפה, ''Mehoz Ḥeifa''; ar, منطقة حيفا) is an administrative district surrounding the city of Haifa, Israel. The district is one of the Districts of Israel, seven administrative districts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subdistricts Of Mandatory Palestine
The Districts and Sub-districts of Mandatory Palestine formed the first and second levels of administrative division and existed through the whole era of Mandatory Palestine, namely from 1920 to 1948. The number and territorial extent of the districts varied over time, as did their subdivision into sub-districts. In Arabic, a district was known as a ''minṭaqah'' (منطقة, plural ''manaṭiq'' مناطق), while in Hebrew it was known as a ''mahoz'' (מחוז, plural ''mehozot'' מחוזות). Each district had an administration headed by a District Governor, a role renamed as District Commissioner in 1925. Sub-districts were managed by an Assistant District Commissioner. They were aided by a District Officer, who was typically either Jewish or Arab, based on the ethnic make-up of the sub-district. By the end of the mandate period, Palestine was divided into 6 districts and 16 subdistricts. Administrative divisions prior to 1922 During the Ottoman period, Palestine was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab
The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the western Indian Ocean islands (including the Comoros). An Arab diaspora is also present around the world in significant numbers, most notably in the Americas, Western Europe, Turkey, Indonesia, and Iran. In modern usage, the term "Arab" tends to refer to those who both carry that ethnic identity and speak Arabic as their native language. This contrasts with the narrower traditional definition, which refers to the descendants of the tribes of Arabia. The religion of Islam was developed in Arabia, and Classical Arabic serves as the language of Islamic literature. 93 percent of Arabs are Muslims (the remainder consisted mostly of Arab Christians), while Arab Muslims are only 20 percent of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beit Lehem
Bethlehem (; ar, بيت لحم ; he, בֵּית לֶחֶם '' '') is a city in the central West Bank, Palestine, about south of Jerusalem. Its population is approximately 25,000,Amara, 1999p. 18.Brynen, 2000p. 202. and it is the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate of the State of Palestine. The economy is primarily tourist-driven, peaking during the Christmas season, when Christians make pilgrimage to the Church of the Nativity. The important holy site of Rachel's Tomb is at the northern entrance of Bethlehem, though not freely accessible to the city's own inhabitants and in general Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank due to the Israeli West Bank barrier. The earliest known mention of Bethlehem was in the Amarna correspondence of 1350–1330 BCE when the town was inhabited by the Canaanites. The Hebrew Bible, which says that the city of Bethlehem was built up as a fortified city by Rehoboam, identifies it as the city David was from and where he was anoin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrat Qisarya
Barrat Qisarya ( ar, برة قيسارية, , outskirts of Caesarea) was a Palestinian Arab Bedouin encampment in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 15, 1948. According to Morris in February 1948, the 'Arab al Sufsafi and Saidun Bedouin, who inhabited the dunes between Qisarya and Pardes left the area.Morris, 2004, p129/ref> Evidence of previous occupation includes pieces of marble, pottery and glass, as well as ruined walls. It was located 32 km southwest of Haifa. References Bibliography * * External linksWelcome To Barrat Qisarya Zochrot
Zochrot ( he, זוכרות; "Remembering"; ar, ذاكرات; "Memories") is an Israeli nonprofit organization found ...
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Balad Ash-Sheikh
Balad al-Sheikh (traditional transliteration) or Balad ash-Shaykh (most recent form of transliteration; ar, بلد الشيخ) was a Palestinian Arab village located just north of Mount Carmel, southeast of Haifa. Currently the town's land is located within the jurisdiction of the Israeli city, Nesher. History Ottoman era The town is named after Sheikh Abdallah as-Sahli, a renowned Sufi, who was granted the taxes collected from the village by Sultan Salim II (1566-1574). The village contains a ''maqam'' ("shrine") dedicated to him. His grave is located in the Balad al-Sheikh cemetery on Mount Carmel. In 1816, British traveller James Silk Buckingham passed by "Belled-el-Sheikh". In 1859, the village had an estimated "200 souls", and the tillage was 20 feddans, while in 1875, Victor Guérin estimated that the village had a population of 500. He described that the houses were built by successive stages, one above the other; and almost all had a cabin made with tree branches at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayn Hawd
Ein Hod ( he, עֵין הוֹד) is a village in Haifa District in northern Israel. Located at the foot of Mount Carmel and southeast of Haifa, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council and has the status of community settlement. In it had a population of . The village is situated on a hillside amidst olive groves, with a view of the Mediterranean Sea. Prior to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War Ein Hod was the site of the Palestinian village of Ein Hawd. Most of the Arab inhabitants were expelled during the war, however some remained in the area and settled nearby, forming a new village, also by the name of Ein Hawd. After a failed attempt to create a moshav on the site, Ein Hod became an artists' colony in 1953. History Ayyubid Period The village was one of the "Al-Hija" villages founded by relatives of Emir Hussam al-Din Abu al-Hija.Benvenisti, 2000, pp. 193195/ref> Abu al-Hija ("the Daring") was an Iraqi Kurd and commander of the Kurdish forces that took pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayn Ghazal
Ayn Ghazal ( ar, عين غزال, "Spring of the Gazelle") was a Palestinian Arab village located south of Haifa. Depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War as a result of an Israeli military assault during Operation Shoter, the village was then completely destroyed. Incorporated into the State of Israel, it is now mostly a forested area. The Israeli moshav of Ofer ("fawn") was established in 1950 on part of the former village's lands. Ein Ayala, a moshav established in 1949, lies just adjacent; its name being the Hebrew translation of Ayn Ghazal.Bronstein in Masalha, 2005p. 233 History In 1799, it appeared as the village Ain Elgazal on the map that Pierre Jacotin compiled that year, though it was misplaced. In 1870, Victor Guérin passed by, and noted that the village had 290 inhabitants. It was divided into two sections, and surrounded by tobacco plantations. Under Ottoman rule like much of the rest of Palestine in the late 19th century, Ayn Ghazal was described as a sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab Zahrat Al-Dumayri
Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 10, 1948. It was located 40 km south of Haifa. History In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, ''Al Damaireh'' had a population of 227 Muslims. The population in the 1945 statistics was 620, all Muslims, with a total of 1,387 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey. Of this, Arabs used 263 dunams for cereals, while a total of 512 dunams were non-cultivable land. On 6 April 1948, the Haganah implemented a new policy for the coastal plains, namely of clearing the whole area of its Arab inhabitants. On 10 April the villagers of Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri, together with the villagers of Arab al-Fuqara and Arab al-Nufay'at, were ordered to leave the area.Morris, 2004, p.245 note631 References Bibliography * * * * * External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab Al-Nufayat
Arab al-Nufay'at was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on 10 April 1948. It was located 45 km south of Haifa. History The population in the 1945 statistics was 820, all Muslims, with a total of 8,937 dunams of land; of which 1,471 was public land, the rest owned by Jews. In 1945 Mikhmoret was established on village lands, south of the site. 1948, and after On 6 April 1948, the Haganah implemented a new policy for the coastal plains, namely of clearing the whole area of its Arab inhabitants. On 10 April the villagers of Arab al-Nufay'at, together with the villagers of Arab al-Fuqara and Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri, were ordered to leave the area.Morris, 2004, p245 note631 In 1992 the village site was described: "The only traces left of the village is one house, which is still inhabited by an Arab family, and an old mulberry tree. The Israeli army has established a military camp that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab Al-Fuqara
Arab al-Fuqara (Arabic: عرب الفقراء) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 10, 1948. At that time, the land records of the village consisted of a total area of 2,714 dunams, of which 2,513 were owned by Jews, 15 owned by Arabs, and the remaining 186 dunams being public lands. Location The village was located 42 km southwest of Haifa, south of Wadi al-Mafjar and northwest of Hadera, in a flat, sandy area.Khalidi, 1992, p.144 History In 1882, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described a local Mukam ''Sheikh Helu'' here, and noted a few adobe houses near, which were not noticed in the official overnmentlists. British Mandate era The Arab villagers were descendants of a section of the al-Balawina Bedouin tribe, whose primary territory was near Beersheba. The area was generally swampy and malarial, and this limited population growth until the mid-19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Zurayq
Abu Zurayq is an archaeological site located on the western edge of the Jezreel Valley and its transition to the Menashe Heights, next to Highway 66, between the modern kibbutzim of HaZore'a and Mishmar HaEmek. The site includes tell called Tel Zariq () or Tell Abu Zureiq, a spring called Ein Zariq and other sites around it. The site was surveyed by Avner Raban expedition as part of the survey of the Mishmar HaEmek area between 1974 and 1976. Based on the pottery collected by his team, the site was inhabited continuously from the Neolithic to the Ottoman periods.Ayala Sussmann, Avner Raban, 2013, Tel Zariq The site is named after a Muslim saint who is buried there. In the 20th century, it was a Palestinian Turkmen village in the Haifa Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, situated near Wadi Abu Zurayq. The area was also named Et Tawatiha, after the al-Tawatiha tribe, one of the three "true" Turkmen tribes in Palestine. It was depopulated on April 12–13 during and after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Shusha (Haifa)
Abu Shusha ( ar, أبو شوشة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on 9 April 1948 during the Battle of Mishmar HaEmek. History The village was located just west of Tel Shush, which recent examination shows may date from the Early Bronze Age.Khalidi, 1992, p. 142 It has also been suggested as the location of the Roman town of ''Gaba Hippeon'', founded in the year 61 BCE, by the Roman governor of Syria, L. Marcius Philippus.Tsafrir, di Segni and Green, 1994, p. 126 It was an episcopal see in the fifth-sixth centuries, and ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here. Ottoman era In 1870 Victor Guérin described it as a small village. The slopes of the hill were covered with many piles of overturned materials from buildings, and on the highest point was the remains of an old tower. In 1882, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described "a little hamlet on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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