Umm al-Faraj

Umm al-Faraj

أُم الفرج
Um el-Faraj, La Fierge
Umm al-Faraj أُم الفرج Um el-Faraj, La Fierge
	Etymology: The ruin with the gap, or chink
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Umm al-Faraj (click the buttons)
	Umm al-Faraj Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 33°00′18″N 35°07′16″E / 33.00500°N 35.12111°E
Palestine grid	162/267
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Acre
Date of depopulation	21 May 1948
Area
• Total	825 dunams (82.5 ha or 204 acres)
Population (1945)
• Total	800
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Ben Ami

Umm al-Faraj (Arabic: أم الفرج, known to the Crusaders as La Fierge), was a Palestinian village, depopulated in 1948.

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 50
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 5
^ ^a ^b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 41
^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #83. Morris also gives cause of depopulation.
^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 35

Umm al-Faraj أُم الفرج Um el-Faraj, La Fierge
Etymology: The ruin with the gap, or chink^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Umm al-Faraj (click the buttons)
Umm al-Faraj Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°00′18″N 35°07′16″E / 33.00500°N 35.12111°E / 33.00500; 35.12111
Palestine grid	162/267
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Acre
Date of depopulation	21 May 1948^[4]
Area ^[3]
• Total	825 dunams (82.5 ha or 204 acres)
Population (1945)
• Total	800^[2]^[3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Ben Ami^[5]