Fara, Safad

Fara
فارة
Village
Etymology: Farah, The highest parts of a mountain[1]
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Fara is located in Mandatory Palestine
Fara
Fara
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°03′57″N 35°27′29″E / 33.06583°N 35.45806°E / 33.06583; 35.45806
Palestine grid193/274
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationOctober 30, 1948[3]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total320[2]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces

Fara (Arabic: فارة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 30, 1948, under Operation Hiram. It was located 11.5 km north of Safad on the Wadi al-Fara.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 72
  2. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 9
  3. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #35. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  4. ^ | unit_pref = dunam | area_total_dunam = 7,229Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 69

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