Sufla

Sufla

سفلى
Sufla سفلى
	Etymology: the low ground
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Sufla (click the buttons)
	Sufla Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 31°44′5″N 35°2′28″E / 31.73472°N 35.04111°E
Palestine grid	153/126
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Jerusalem
Date of depopulation	October 19, 1948
Area
• Total	2,061 dunams (2.061 km2 or 509 acres)
Population (1945)
• Total	60
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces

Sufla (Arabic: سفلى) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on October 19, 1948, by the Sixth Battalion of the Harel Brigade under Operation Ha-Har. It was located 18.5 km west of Jerusalem.

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 329
^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 25
^ ^a ^b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 58
^ Morris, 2004, p. xx, village #340. Also gives cause of depopulation.

Sufla سفلى
Etymology: the low ground^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Sufla (click the buttons)
Sufla Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°44′5″N 35°2′28″E / 31.73472°N 35.04111°E / 31.73472; 35.04111
Palestine grid	153/126
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Jerusalem
Date of depopulation	October 19, 1948^[4]
Area ^[3]
• Total	2,061 dunams (2.061 km² or 509 acres)
Population (1945)
• Total	60^[2]^[3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces