Al-'Ulmaniyya

Al-'Ulmaniyya
Al-'Ulmaniyya
Arabic
Also Spelled 'Ulmaniya, al[1]
District Safad
Coordinates
Population 260 (1945)
Area
Date of depopulation April 20, 1948[1]
Cause(s) of depopulation Military assault by Yishuv forces

Al-'Ulmaniyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 20, 1948 by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 14.5 km northeast of Safad.

A 1596 census revealed a population of 55. In 1945, the village had a population of 260.

References

  1. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #30. Also gives cause of depopulation.

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