Yubla
يبلى Hubeleth | |
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Village | |
| Etymology: Kh. Yebla, the ruin of Yebla, p.n.[1] | |
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  Yubla Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°34′36″N 35°28′10″E / 32.57667°N 35.46944°E | |
| Palestine grid | 194/220 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Baysan |
| Date of depopulation | 16 May 1948[4] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5,165 dunams (5.165 km2 or 1.994 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 210[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
Yubla (Arabic: يبلى, known to the Crusaders as Hubeleth), was a Palestinian village, located 9 kilometers north of Bisan in present-day Israel. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.[5]
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 163
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 7
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 44
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii village #113. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- ^ Welcome to Yubla, Palestine Remembered, retrieved 2007-12-06
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