Template:Infobox Former Arab villages in Palestine/doc

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This is a documentation subpage for Template:Infobox Former Arab villages in Palestine (see that page for the template itself).
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template is meant for Palestinian cities, towns, and villages, depopulated prior to, during, and after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

[edit] Parameters

  • name: name of the village
  • image (optional): preferably a view of the village or a structure in the village such as mosque, church etc.
  • imgsize (optional): size of image, if different from original (measurement is px, no need to add px to the end)
  • caption (optional): optional caption
  • arname: name/spelling of the city in Arabic
  • meaning (optional): name meaning (
  • altSp (optional): alternative transliterations, e.g. Dayr al-Qasi
  • district: district of the village, can have 18 possible values:
    • jn: Jenin District
    • ac: Acre District
    • tk: Tulkarm District
    • nb: Nablus District
    • by: Baysan District
    • nz: Nazareth District
    • rm: Ramallah District
    • rl: Ramla District
    • jl: Jerusalem District
    • hb: Hebron District
    • br: Beersheba District
    • gz: Gaza District
    • sf: Safad District
    • tb: Tiberias District
    • jf: Jaffa District
    • hf: Haifa District
  • population: population of the village
  • popyear (optional): year in which the census (or estimate, since the last complete census was in 1945 for most villages) was made
  • area: jurisdiction of the village, dunams (the local measurement unit for measuring jurisdiction)
  • areakm (optional): same, in squared kilometers (dunams/1000)
  • date: date the village was depopulated
  • cause (optional): cause for abandonment, can have 7 possible values:
    • A: Abandonment on Arab orders
    • C: Influence of nearby town's fall
    • E: Expulsion by Jewish forces
    • F: Fear of being caught up in fighting
    • M: Military assault by Jewish forces
    • W: Whispering campaign
    • ?: Unknown
  • cause2 (optional): additional causal factor, with the option of 7 values as outlined above.
  • cause3 (optional): third causal factor, with the option of 7 values as outlined above.
  • curlocl (optional): The linked name of the current locality that is built on the former village's jurisdiction

[edit] Usage

{{Infobox Former Arab villages in Palestine
|name=
|image=
|imgsize=
|caption=
|arname=
|meaning=
|altSp=
|district=
|population=
|popyear=
|area=
|areakm=
|date=
|cause=
|cause2=
|cause3=
|curlocl=
}}
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