Al-Manara, Palestine

Al-Menara
المنارة
Village
Etymology: the light-house[1]
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Al-Menara is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Menara
Al-Menara
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°45′17″N 35°32′32″E / 32.75472°N 35.54222°E / 32.75472; 35.54222
Palestine grid201/240
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictTiberias
Date of depopulationearly March, 1948[4]
Area
 • Total4,185 dunams (4.185 km2 or 1.616 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total490[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces

Al-Manara (Arabic: المنارة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 1, 1948, by Jewish troops. It was located 5 km south of Tiberias.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 131
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 12
  3. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 72
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #99. Also gives cause of depopulation

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