Al-Mansi

Al-Mansi
المنسي
'Arab Baniha
Village
Etymology: The forgotten[1]
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Al-Mansi is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Mansi
Al-Mansi
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°35′42″N 35°10′22″E / 32.59500°N 35.17278°E / 32.59500; 35.17278
Palestine grid166/222
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictHaifa
Date of depopulation12–13 April 1948[4]
Area
 • Total12,272[2] dunams (12.3 km2 or 4.7 sq mi)
Population
 (1944/45)
 • Total1,200[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesMidrakh Oz[5]

Al-Mansi (Arabic: المنسي, also called 'Arab Baniha Arabic: عرب بنيها) was a Palestinian village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was occupied on 12 April 1948 by Israeli troops during the Battle of Mishmar HaEmek. The village was inhabited by Turkmens.[6]

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 151
  2. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 48
  3. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 14
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village # 148
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Khalidi177 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Marom, Roy; Tepper, Yotam; Adams, Matthew J. (3 January 2024). "Al-Lajjun: a Social and geographic account of a Palestinian Village during the British Mandate Period". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: 18. doi:10.1080/13530194.2023.2279340.

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