Qaddita
Qaddita
قدّيتا Kaditta | ||
|---|---|---|
Village | ||
| Etymology: from personal name[1] | ||
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Geopolitical entity Mandatory Palestine | | |
| Subdistrict | Safad | |
| Date of depopulation | May 11, 1948[4] | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 2,441 dunams (2.441 km2 or 603 acres) | |
| Population (1945) | ||
| • Total | 240[2][3] | |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall | |
| Current Localities | Kadita | |
Qaddita (
.History
It is possible that the name "Qaddita" is an
Ottoman era
Qaddita was under the
The village appeared under the name of Kadis on the map that Pierre Jacotin compiled during Napoleon's invasion of 1799.[8]
The village was reported to be totally destroyed in the devastating Galilee earthquake of 1837.[9] In 1838, Robinson noted: "Kadita has many vineyards and fig trees in its neighbourhood, and was greatly injured by the earthquake".[10] He also noted it as a village located in the Safad district.[11]
In 1875, Victor Guérin found "only ten houses, inhabited by as many Moslem families. Cisterns cut in the rock prove that it is the site of an ancient place."[12]
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Kadditha: "a mud and stone village, containing about 200 Muslems, situated on the slope of a hill, with gardens of figs. There is a birket and spring."[13]
A population list from about 1887 showed Kadditha to have about 315 inhabitants; all Muslims.[14]
British Mandate era
Under the rule of the British Mandate in Palestine, Qaddita expanded north and south, its houses were clustered together, and built of stone.[5] In the 1922 census of Palestine, Qaddita had a population of 110; all Muslims,[15] increasing in the 1931 census to 170, still all Muslims, in a total of 32 houses.[16]
Its economy was based on animal husbandry and crop cultivation, mainly grains, figs, pomegranates, and grapes as well as olives which by 1943 covered 77 dunams.[5] In the 1945 statistics the population was 240 Muslims,[2] and the total land area was 2,441 dunums;[3] Of this, 150 dunums was plantations and irrigable land, 1,452 cereals,[17] while 31 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[18]
1948, and after
Like many other
See also
References
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 76
- ^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 71
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #46. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- ^ a b c d Khalidi, 1992, p.485.
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p.175, cited in Khalidi, 1992, p.485.
- ^ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 Archived 2019-04-20 at the Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
- ^ Karmon, 1960, p. 165 Archived 2019-12-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The earthquake of 1 January 1837 in Southern Lebanon and Northern Israel" by N. N. Ambraseys, in Annali di Geofisica, Aug. 1997, p.933
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 367
- ^ Robinson and Smith, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 134
- ^ Guérin, 1880, p. 428; as given by Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p, 198
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p, 198. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 485
- ^ Schumacher, 1888, p. 188
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. 41
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 109
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 120
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 170
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p.486.
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. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- 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. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
- Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Centre.
- 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 2015-04-26.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University. Archived from the original on 2020-03-01. Retrieved 2017-11-02.
- Schumacher, G. (1888). "Population list of the Liwa of Akka". Quarterly Statement - Palestine Exploration Fund. 20: 169–191.
External links
- Welcome to Qaddita
- Qaddita, Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Qaddita, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
- Qaddita, Dr. Khalil Rizk
