Al-Mas'udiyya

Al-Mas'udiyya
المسعوديّة/صميل
Summayl
Remains of Al-Mas'udiyya, in 2005.
Remains of Al-Mas'udiyya, in 2005.
Etymology: Summeil, personal name, from "hard", or "withered"[1]
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Al-Mas'udiyya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Mas'udiyya
Al-Mas'udiyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°05′07″N 34°46′54″E / 32.08528°N 34.78167°E / 32.08528; 34.78167
Palestine grid129/165
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictJaffa
Date of depopulationDecember 25, 1947[4]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total850[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationFear of being caught up in the fighting
Current Localitiespart of Tel Aviv[5]

Al-Mas'udiyya (also known as Summayl), was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on December 25, 1947. It was located 5 km northeast of Jaffa, situated 1.5 km south of the al-'Awja River. The village used to be known as Summayl.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 219
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 27
  3. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 52
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #205. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  5. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 249

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