Al-Manshiyya, Safad
Al-Manshiyya
المنشية | |
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Village | |
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Al-Manshiyya Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°13′32″N 35°36′24″E / 33.22556°N 35.60667°E | |
| Palestine grid | 206/292 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | Not known[1] |
| Population (1948) | |
• Total | 140 |
Al-Manshiyya (Arabic: المنشية) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict (located 30 km northeast of Safad) that was depopulated by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach during the 1948 War on May 24, 1948.[2]
Al-Manshīyya was a modern agricultural estate belonging to Emir Fāʿūr, sheikh of the Faḍl tribal confederacy in the Golan, cultivated by local Ghawārina Marsh Arabs and settled fellahin.[3]
In discussing the Diocletianic boundary-stone toponym Mamsia, Marom argues that the British Mandate–period estate name al-Manšīya likely reflects a later folk-etymological reshaping of an older form, mediated through the adjacent microtoponym Marsīna al-Šarqiya (c. 400 m to the northwest).[3]
In 1948 it had a population of 140. 1948 was also the year the village was destroyed and depopulated. It is now mainly deserted with multiple abandoned buildings.
References
- ^ Morris, 2004, p xvi, village number 391. Gives both the date and cause for depopulation as "not known".
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 473
- ^ a b Marom, Roy (May 2026). "Preservation through Transformation: Identifying Late Roman Hula Valley Sites in Panias's Diocletianic Boundary Stones". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (395): 1–15. doi:10.1086/739857.
Bibliography
- Khalidi, W. (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
External links
- Welcome To al-Manshiyya
- Al-Manshiyya, Villages of Palestine
- al-Manshiyya (Safed), Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: IAA, Wikimedia commons
