Al-Zuq al-Tahtani
الزوق التحتاني | |
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Village | |
 Residents of al-Zuk al-Tahtani seen from a Palmach convoy. 1947. | |
| Etymology: the lower Zuk (Zuk is a Syriac word meaning "town", or "village")[1] | |
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  Al-Zuq al-Tahtani Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°12′54″N 35°36′04″E / 33.21500°N 35.60111°E | |
| Palestine grid | 205/291 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | May 11, 1948[4] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 11,634 dunams (11.634 km2 or 4.492 sq mi) |
| Population (1948) | |
| • Total | 1,050[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
| Current Localities | Beyt Hillel[5] |
Al-Zuq al-Tahtani was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 11, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 30 km northeast of Safad.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 38
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 11
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.71 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #9. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 510
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