Yajur, Haifa
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| Arabic | ياجور |
| Subdistrict | Haifa |
| Coordinates | 32°45′30.6″N 35°03′26.3″E / 32.758500°N 35.057306°ECoordinates: 32°45′30.6″N 35°03′26.3″E / 32.758500°N 35.057306°E |
| Palestine grid | 155/240 |
| Population | 610 (1945[1]) |
| Area | 2,720 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | April 25, 1948[2] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Secondary cause | Influence of nearby town's fall |
Yajur (Arabic: ياجور, Yâjûr) was a Palestinian Arab village located 9.5 km southeast of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 25, 1948.
Yajur was mentioned as part of the domain of the Crusaders during the hudna (truce) between the Crusaders based in Acre and the Mamluk sultan Al Mansur Qalawun declared in 1283.[3]
In 1921, some of the land of Yajur was sold by Nasrallah Kuri to Yehoshua Hankin. The village population in 1945 was 610.
Fragments of glass, and tombs with sarcophagi are located in the old village area today.
References
- ↑ Hadawi, 1970, p. 49. Also gives land area in dunams.
- ↑ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #143. Also gives causes of depopulation.
- ↑ Dan Barag (1979). "A new source concerning the ultimate borders of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem". Israel Exploration Journal 29. pp. 197–217.
Bibliography
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- Barag, Dan (1979). "A new source concerning the ultimate borders of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem". Israel Exploration Journal 29: 197–217.
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Cohen, Hillel (2008), Army of Shadows, Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948, University of California Press
- 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.
- 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.
- Mülinen, Egbert Friedrich von 1908, Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Karmels "Separateabdruck aus der Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palëstina-Vereins Band XXX (1907) Seite 117-207 und Band XXXI (1908) Seite 1-258." El-Yadschur: p. 178 ff.
External links
- Welcome To Yajur
- SWP map V, IAA
- SWP map 5, Wikimedia commons
- Yajur, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
