Khirbat al-Sawamir
Khirbat al-Sawamir | ||
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Etymology: "Places of nocturnal entertainment"[1] | ||
Geopolitical entity Mandatory Palestine | | |
Subdistrict | Haifa | |
Date of depopulation | May 22, 1948 | |
Population (1931) | ||
• Total | 1,439 together with Ayn Ghazal[2] | |
Current Localities | Ofer[3] |
Khirbat al-Sawamir was a
History
Burial places cut into rock, and ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found at Khirbat al-Sawamir.[4]
Ottoman era
Khirbat al-Sawamir was incorporated into the
The village appeared, though misplaced, under the name of Sawama on the map that Pierre Jacotin compiled during Napoleon's invasion of 1799.[7]
In 1859, the population was estimated to be 120 persons, with 15 feddans of cultivated area.[8]
In 1882, the
In the early twentieth century, travelers noted that the village was better built that the usual
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Al Sawamer had a population of 17 Muslims.[10] In the 1931 census, the population was counted with that of Ayn Ghazal, and together they had 1,439 Muslims in 247 houses.[2] In the Village Statistics, 1945, the name of the village was not mentioned.
1948, aftermath
Following the 1948 war the area was incorporated into the State of Israel. The moshav of Ofer was established in 1950 partly on the land of Khirbat al-Sawamir, and partly on the land of Ayn Ghazal.[3]
In 1992 the village site was described: "The ruins of two walls (formerly parts of a building) are visible at the site, which has been fenced in with barbed wire. Pine trees occupy much of the land on the site, and pomegranate and fig trees and cactuses are scattered throughout. The surrounding coastal lands are used by Israeli farmers for growing vegetables and fruit, particularly bananas."[3]
References
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 153
- ^ a b Mills, 1932, p. 90
- ^ a b c Khalidi, 1992, p. 191
- ^ Dauphin, 1992, p. 696
- ^ a b Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 158
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 190
- ^ Karmon, 1960, p. 163 Archived 2019-12-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p.43
- ^ Mülinen, 1908, pp. 284-285
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Haifa, p. 34
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- ISBN 0-860549-05-4.
- Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
- Karmon, Y. (1960). "An Analysis of Jacotin's Map of Palestine" (PDF). Israel Exploration Journal. 10 (3, 4): 155–173, 244–253. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-12-22. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
- ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Mülinen, Egbert Friedrich von 1908, Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Karmels "Separateabdruck aus der Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palëstina-Vereins Band XXX (1907) Seite 117-207 und Band XXXI (1908) Seite 1-258."
- 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.
External links
- Welcome To al-Sawamir
- al-Sawamir, Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: IAA, Wikimedia commons