Ubeidiya, Tiberias

Al-'Ubaydiyya

العبيدية
Al-'Ubaydiyya العبيدية
Village
	Remains of a gristmill
	Etymology: From personal name
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Ubeidiya, Tiberias (click the buttons)
	Al-'Ubaydiyya Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 32°41′21″N 35°33′42″E / 32.68917°N 35.56167°E
Palestine grid	202/232
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Tiberias
Date of depopulation	March 5, 1948
Area
• Total	5,173 dunams (5.173 km2 or 1.997 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	870
Cause(s) of depopulation	Fear of being caught up in the fighting

Al-'Ubaydiyya (Arabic: العبيدية) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on March 3, 1948. It was located 11 km south of Tiberias, situated close to the Jordan River.

Today the site is a desolate hill named Tel Ubeidiya.

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 121
^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 12
^ ^a ^b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 73
^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #104. Also gives cause of depopulation

Al-'Ubaydiyya العبيدية
Village
Remains of a gristmill
Etymology: From personal name^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Ubeidiya, Tiberias (click the buttons)
Al-'Ubaydiyya Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°41′21″N 35°33′42″E / 32.68917°N 35.56167°E / 32.68917; 35.56167
Palestine grid	202/232
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Tiberias
Date of depopulation	March 5, 1948^[4]
Area ^[3]
• Total	5,173 dunams (5.173 km² or 1.997 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	870^[2]^[3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Fear of being caught up in the fighting