Ma'dhar

Ma'dhar
Etymology: from personal name,[1]
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Ma'dhar is located in Mandatory Palestine
Ma'dhar
Ma'dhar
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°41′35″N 35°27′51″E / 32.69306°N 35.46417°E / 32.69306; 35.46417
Palestine grid193/233
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictTiberias
Date of depopulationApril 6, 1948[4]
Area
 • Total11,666 dunams (11.666 km2 or 4.504 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total480[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationAbandonment on Arab orders
Current LocalitiesKefar Qish[5]

Ma'dhar was a Palestinian village in the Tiberias Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948, by the Golani Brigade of Operation Gideon. It was located 12.5 km southwest of Tiberias.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 130
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 12
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 72
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #105. Also gives cause of depopulation
  5. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 529

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