Tiberias Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine
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Tiberias Subdistrict (; ) was one of the
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 dis ...
, and as of 1945 it was part of the Galilee District. According to the 1947 partition plan, the district was to belong entirely to the Jewish state. After the
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, small areas south and east of the Sea of Galilee were conquered by the
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and became No Man's Land, while the whole of the sub-district became the modern Kineret sub-district Kinneret County in the North District


Borders

* Safad Subdistrict (North) *
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(West) * Beisan Subdistrict (South) * Nazareth Subdistrict (West) *
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(East)


Depopulated towns and villages

* Awlam * al-Dalhamiyya * Ghuwayr Abu Shusha * Hadatha * al-Hamma * Hittin * Kafr Sabt * Lubya * Ma'dhar * al-Majdal * al-Manara * al-Manshiyya * al-Mansura * Nasir ad-Din * Nimrin * al-Nuqayb * Samakh * al-Samakiyya * al-Samra * al-Shajara *
Tabgha Tabgha (, ''al-Tabigha''; , ''Ein Sheva'' which means "spring of seven") is an area situated on the north-western shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel and a depopulated Palestinian village. It is traditionally accepted as the place of the feedi ...
* Al-'Ubaydiyya * Khirbat al-Wa'ra al-Sawda' *
Yaquq Yaquq () was a Palestinian people, Palestinian Arab village, which was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948. It was located 12.5 km north of Tiberias and was built at the site of the ancient Jewis ...
Subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine {{Mandate-Palestine-stub