Al-'Ulmaniyya
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Al-'Ulmaniyya, 2012 | |
Al-'Ulmaniyya | |
Also spelled | 'Ulmaniya, al[1] |
Subdistrict | Safad |
Coordinates | 33°04′23.85″N 35°35′19.50″E / 33.0732917°N 35.5887500°ECoordinates: 33°04′23.85″N 35°35′19.50″E / 33.0732917°N 35.5887500°E |
Palestine grid | 205/275 |
Population | 260 (1945) |
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 Safad Subdistrict. 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.
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- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- Khalidi, Walid (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.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.