Awlam

Awlam

عولم
'Ulam
Awlam عولم 'Ulam
	Etymology: possibly from the Arabic form of “a full well”
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Awlam (click the buttons)
	Awlam Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 32°39′59″N 35°29′57″E / 32.66639°N 35.49917°E
Palestine grid	197/230
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Tiberias
Date of depopulation	April 6, 1948
Area
• Total	18,546 dunams (18.5 km2 or 7.1 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	720
Cause(s) of depopulation	Abandonment on Arab orders

Awlam (Arabic: عولم) was a Palestinian village 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south of Tiberias situated on the slopes of the westward Wadi Awlam.^[5]

In the late Ottoman period it was a ruin, resettled by Algerian migrants under the auspices of the Ottomans.^[6]

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 159
^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 12
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 73
^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #107. Also gives cause of depopulation
^ Cite error: The named reference Khalidi was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Ahmad Abbasi, Mustafa (2007). "הקהילה האלג'יראית בגליל משלהי השלטון העות'מני עד שנת 1948". אופקים בגיאוגרפיה. 68/9: 61.

Awlam عولم 'Ulam
Etymology: possibly from the Arabic form of “a full well”^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Awlam (click the buttons)
Awlam Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°39′59″N 35°29′57″E / 32.66639°N 35.49917°E / 32.66639; 35.49917
Palestine grid	197/230
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Tiberias
Date of depopulation	April 6, 1948^[4]
Area
• Total	18,546 dunams (18.5 km² or 7.1 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	720^[2]^[3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Abandonment on Arab orders