Naghnaghiya
Naghnaghiya
النغْنغية Al-Naghnaghiyya | ||
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Village | ||
Geopolitical entity Mandatory Palestine | | |
Subdistrict | Haifa | |
Date of depopulation | 12-13 April 1948[2] | |
Area | ||
• Total | 12,139 dunams (12.139 km2 or 4.687 sq mi) | |
Population (1931) | ||
• Total | 416[1] | |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Naghnaghiya (
Location
The village was on the north edge of a hill at the edge of a wadi bed, overlooking the Jezreel Valley and the Nazareth hills to the north and northeast. It was the smallest of a group of three villages (known collectively as al-Ghubayyat) located together; the others were Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa and Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta. Next to al- Naghnaghiya was an artificial mound that bore the same name. Two kilometers to the southeast, on the highway to Jenin was Tall al-Mutasallim, identified with Megiddo.[3]
History
In 1888, during Ottoman rule, an elementary school was built that was shared by the three al-Ghubayyat villages.[3]
British Mandate era
In the
In the 1945 statistics the population of Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa, Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta and Naghnaghiya was 1,130, all Muslims,[6] and it had 12,139 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.[7] 209 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 10,883 for cereals,[8] while no data were given for built-up (urban) land.[9]
1948, and after
Before the outbreak of the
According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, describing the village in 1992: "The remains of houses are scattered on the slope of one hill. The site, traversed by the Haifa-Megiddo highway and partly occupied by an Israeli soccer field, is difficult to identify."[11]
See also
- Battle of Mishmar HaEmek
- Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel
References
- ^ a b Mills, 1932, p. 95
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii village #149. Also gives cause of depopulation
- ^ a b c Khalidi, 1992, p. 179
- ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. 242
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Haifa, p. 35
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 13
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 47
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 90
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 140
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. 346
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 180
Bibliography
- Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
- Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- 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.
External links
- Welcome to al-Naghnaghiyya
- al-Naghnaghiyya, Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Al-Naghnaghiyya photos from Dr. Moslih Kanaaneh
- al-Naghnaghiyya from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center