Al-Malkiyya
Al-Malikiyya | |
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Al-Malikiyya | |
Arabic | المالكية |
Name meaning | from "Malek": to possess, or reign[1] |
Also spelled | Malikiya, al |
Subdistrict | Safad |
Coordinates | 33°06′19.81″N 35°30′22.67″E / 33.1055028°N 35.5062972°ECoordinates: 33°06′19.81″N 35°30′22.67″E / 33.1055028°N 35.5062972°E |
Palestine grid | 197/278 |
Population | 360[2] (1945) |
Area | 7,328[2] dunams |
Date of depopulation | 28 May 1948[3] |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Current localities | Malkiya[4][5] |
Al-Malikiyya (Arabic: المالكية) was a Palestinian village located in the Jabal Amil region. In a 1920s census, the village was registered as part of Greater Lebanon. It was later placed under the British Mandate of Palestine. Its population was mostly Metawali Shiite.
In a 1930s census, the village was registered as Palestinian and part of the Safed District. The village was depopulated as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
History
According to the Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi (d. 1228), the people of al-Malikiyya had a wooden platter that they believed was originally owned by the prophet Mohammed.[5][6]
In 1596, al-Malikiyya was a village in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 369. It paid taxes on a number of crops, such as wheat, barley, as well as goats and beehives.[7][8]
Victor Guérin visited in 1875, and noted that Al-Malkiyya had 300 Metawali inhabitants.[9] He further noted that the village, which stood upon a lofty summit, was remarkable for possessing neither well nor cistern; the women fetched their water from the spring at Kades. But a birkeh was placed on the map close to the village.[10]
In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Al-Malkiyya as being built of stone and mud, lying on a plain to the east of a valley. Well supplied with water from a nearby wadi, the village's 200-300 inhabitants cultivated olives.[11]
In 1944/45 a total of 4,225 dunums of land was allocated to cereals.[5][12]
1948 Arab-Israeli war
Al-Malikiyya changed hands no fewer than five times between May and October 1948.[5]
A battle was fought in the village on 5-6 June 1948. Combatants were Israelis and the Lebanese army commanded by then Lebanese minister of defense, Emir Majid Arslan II. The Lebanese army would occupy the village for a month. This was the only time Lebanon directly participated in the war. [13]
As a result of the war, the village was depopulated.
See also
- List of Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
- Metawali
- Operation Hiram
References
- ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 88
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 70
- ↑ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #25. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- ↑ Morris, 2004, p. xxii, Settlement #135, established 1949.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Khalidi, 1992, p. 471
- ↑ Mu'jam Al-Buldan, cited in le Strange, 1890, p.77
- ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 179. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 471
- ↑ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
- ↑ Guérin, 1880, p. 373
- ↑ Guérin, 1880, p. 373, as given in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 251
- ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 202; Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 471
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 119
- ↑ Morris, 2004, p. 276
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Guérin, Victor (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. 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.
- Rhode, Harold (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University.
- Stepansky, Yosef (2004-06-02). "Malkiyya (East) Final Report" (116). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
- Strange, le, Guy (1890). Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
External links
- Welcome to al-Malikiyya
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- al-Malikiyya, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
- al-Malikiyya, Dr. Khalil Rizk.