Khirbat Al-Mansura
For other uses, see El Mansurah (disambiguation).
Khirbat Al-Mansura | |
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Khirbat Al-Mansura | |
Subdistrict | Haifa |
Coordinates | 32°40′27.65″N 35°05′58.95″E / 32.6743472°N 35.0997083°ECoordinates: 32°40′27.65″N 35°05′58.95″E / 32.6743472°N 35.0997083°E |
Palestine grid | 159/231 |
Date of depopulation | April 28, 1948 |
Khirbat Al-Mansura was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 28, 1948. It was located 18.5 km southeast of Haifa. Khirbat Al-Mansura contained the ruins of building foundations and rock-cut tombs.
References
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 61: ruins)
- Guérin, Victor (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (p. 244)
- 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.
- 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. (Palmer, 1881, pp. 9, 149)
External links
- Welcome To al-Mansura, Khirbat
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: IAA, Wikimedia commons
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