Al-Samra

Coordinates: 32°43′23″N 35°37′02″E / 32.72306°N 35.61722°E / 32.72306; 35.61722
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Al-Samra
السمرا
Village
A 1914 Ottoman memorial for two killed pilots, 1,5 km east of the village site
A 1914 Ottoman memorial for two killed pilots, 1,5 km east of the village site
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Geopolitical entity
Mandatory Palestine
SubdistrictTiberias
Date of depopulationApril 21, 1948[3]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total290[1][2]
Cause(s) of depopulationInfluence of nearby town's fall
Current LocalitiesHaOn[4][5]

Al-Samra (

1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine. It was located 10 km southeast of Tiberias
.

History

The village had a mosque and several khirbas (ruined sites) including Khirbat al-Tawafiq and Khirbat Duwayraban.[4]

Late Ottoman period

In the early 19th century,

Lake Tiberias, and that it had some ancient buildings.[6]

In 1838,

Muslim.[8]

In 1875,

Hippos.[9]

A population list from about 1887 showed es Samr (east shore) to have about 180 inhabitants; 20 Druze and 160 Muslims.[10]

In 1914, an Ottoman airplane, on its way from Istanbul to Cairo, crashed by the village. Two pilots were killed. There is an Ottoman memorial to the event, about 1,5 km east of the village site.

Ottoman Air Force, was one of the pilots killed.[11]

British Mandate period

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the population of Samra was 157 Muslims,[12] increasing in the 1931 census to 237; 232 Muslims and 5 Baháʼís, in a total of 50 houses.[13]

In the 1945 statistics, Es Samra had a population of 290; 280 Muslims and 10 classified as others,[1] with 6,912 dunams of Arab-owned land.[2] Of this, 30 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 21 for plantations and irrigable land, 6,828 dunams for cereals,[14] while 23 dunams were classified as built-up area.[15]

1948, aftermath

Ein Gev - Al Samra - Al Hamma Demilitarized Zone, per the Israel–Syria Mixed Armistice Commission.

The village became depopulated on April 21, 1948.[3][16][17][18]

HaOn was established on village land, north of the village site, in 1949.[4]

In 1992, Walid Khalidi described the village site: "Nothing remains of the village houses. A tourist resort, which consists of a few cabins and small houses, has been established on part of the village site. Other parts of the site are covered with trees. The surrounding land is cultivated by Israelis."[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 12
  2. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 73
  3. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #102. Also gives cause of depopulation
  4. ^ a b c d e Khalidi, 1992, p. 540
  5. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxii, settlement #143
  6. ^ Burckhardt, 1822, pp. 278-279, cited in Khalidi, 1992, p. 539
  7. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, p. 264, cited in Khalidi, 1992, pp. 539-540
  8. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, Appendix 2, p. 131, calling it el-Khirbet es-Saudah
  9. ^ Guérin, 1880, p. 310-312
  10. ^ Schumacher, 1888, p. 186
  11. ^ Letter from Kibbutz Ha’On: Fallen Flyers Hadassah Magazine, 17 March 2014
  12. ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Tiberias, p. 39
  13. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 84
  14. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 123
  15. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 173
  16. ^ Morris, 2004, p. 186 note #179, p. 275
  17. ^ Morris, 2004, p. 372, note #180, p. 405
  18. ^ Morris, 2004, p. 513, notes #56, 57, p. 539

Sources

  • Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
  • Burckhardt, J.L. (1822). Travels in Syria and the Holy Land. London: J. Murray.
  • Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
  • Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 3: Galilee, pt. 1. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
  • Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center. Archived from the original on 2018-12-08. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
  • ISBN 0-88728-224-5
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  • Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
  • ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6
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  • Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
  • Schumacher, G. (1888). "Population list of the Liwa of Akka". Quarterly Statement - Palestine Exploration Fund. 20: 169–191.

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