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Malha
المالحة
מלחה | |
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| Etymology: The salt-pan[1] | |
 Village boundaries of Maliha in the Mandatory Palestine period | |
| Palestine grid | 167/129 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Jerusalem |
| Date of depopulation | 21 April 1948, 15 July 1948[2] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 13,449 dunams (13.449 km2 or 5.193 sq mi) |
| Population (1948[5]) | |
| • Total | 1,940[4][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
| Secondary cause | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Malha is a neighborhood in southwest Jerusalem, between Pat, Ramat Denya and Kiryat Hayovel in the Valley of Rephaim. Before 1948, Malha was an Arab village known as al-Maliha (Arabic: المالحة).
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 322
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xx, village #361. Also gives the cause for depopulation
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 57
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 25
- ^ Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Archived 2012-02-12 at the Wayback Machine Depopulated Jerusalem Localities of the year 1948 by Selected Variables
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