Al-Jammasin al-Sharqi

Al-Jammasin al-Sharqi
الجمْاسين الشرقي
Village
Etymology: The eastern buffalo breeders[1]
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Al-Jammasin al-Sharqi is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Jammasin al-Sharqi
Al-Jammasin al-Sharqi
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°05′54″N 34°49′44″E / 32.09833°N 34.82889°E / 32.09833; 34.82889
Palestine grid134/166
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictJaffa
Date of depopulationMarch 17, 1948[4]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total730[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationFear of being caught up in the fighting

Al-Jammasin al-Sharqi was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War on March 17, 1948. It was located 9 km northeast of Jaffa.

  1. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 245
  2. ^ Government of Palestine, 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 #204. Also gives cause of depopulation.

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