Al-Samra

Al-Samra
السمرا
Village
A 1914 Ottoman memorial for two killed pilots, 1,5 km east of the village site
A 1914 Ottoman memorial for two killed pilots, 1,5 km east of the village site
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Samra (click the buttons)
Al-Samra is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Samra
Al-Samra
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°43′23″N 35°37′02″E / 32.72306°N 35.61722°E / 32.72306; 35.61722
Palestine grid208/236
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictTiberias
Date of depopulationApril 21, 1948[3]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total290[1][2]
Cause(s) of depopulationInfluence of nearby town's fall
Current LocalitiesHaOn[4][5]

Al-Samra (Arabic: السمرا) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict. It was depopulated on April 21, 1948, during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine. It was located 10 km southeast of Tiberias.

  1. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 12
  2. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 73
  3. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #102. Also gives cause of depopulation
  4. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 540
  5. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxii, settlement #143

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