Al-Burayj
البريج' | |
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| Etymology: The little tower[1] | |
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  Al-Burayj Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°44′25″N 34°55′52″E / 31.74028°N 34.93111°E | |
| Palestine grid | 143/127 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Jerusalem |
| Date of depopulation | Not known[4] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 19,080 dunams (19.08 km2 or 7.37 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 720[2][3] |
| Current Localities | Sdot Micha[5]Sdot Micha Airbase[5] |
Al-Burayj or Bureij, lit. 'little tower',[6] was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on October 19, 1948, during the first phase of Operation Ha-Har. The village was located 28.5 km west of Jerusalem.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 267
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 24
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 56 Archived 2008-08-05 at the Library of Congress Web Archives
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #272. Gives both cause and date of depopulation as "Not known"
- ^ a b Khalidi, 1991, p. 282
- ^ Socin, 1879, p. 149
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