Khirbat Qumbaza

Khirbat Qumbaza
Khirbat Qumbaza
	Etymology: Kumbazah, possibly from Persian for dome or cupola
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Khirbat Qumbaza (click the buttons)
	Khirbat Qumbaza Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 32°37′55″N 35°1′34″E / 32.63194°N 35.02611°E
Palestine grid	152/226
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Haifa
Date of depopulation	May 1948
Population (1931)
• Total	2,160
Current Localities	Kerem Maharal

Khirbat Qumbaza was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict, located 21.5 km south of Haifa, 3 km away from Wadi al-Milh. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War in May 1948.

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 150
^ Mills, 1932, p. 91. Number includes Ijzim, Khirbat Al-Manara, Al-Mazar, Shaykh al-Burayk, al-Washahiyya
^ given in Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village No. 165, followed by a (?)
^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 185

Khirbat Qumbaza
Etymology: Kumbazah, possibly from Persian for dome or cupola^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Khirbat Qumbaza (click the buttons)
Khirbat Qumbaza Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°37′55″N 35°1′34″E / 32.63194°N 35.02611°E / 32.63194; 35.02611
Palestine grid	152/226
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Haifa
Date of depopulation	May 1948^[3]
Population (1931)
• Total	2,160^[2]
Current Localities	Kerem Maharal^[4]