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Al-Mas'udiyya

المسعوديّة/صميل
Summayl
Al-Mas'udiyya المسعوديّة/صميل Summayl
	Remains of Al-Mas'udiyya, in 2005.
	Etymology: Summeil, personal name, from "hard", or "withered"
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Mas'udiyya (click the buttons)
	Al-Mas'udiyya Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 32°05′07″N 34°46′54″E / 32.08528°N 34.78167°E
Palestine grid	129/165
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Jaffa
Date of depopulation	December 25, 1947
Population (1945)
• Total	850
Cause(s) of depopulation	Fear of being caught up in the fighting
Current Localities	part of Tel Aviv

Al-Mas'udiyya (also known as Summayl), was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on December 25, 1947. It was located 5 km northeast of Jaffa, situated 1.5 km south of the al-'Awja River. The village used to be known as Summayl.

History

In 1799, it was noted as an unnamed village on the map that Pierre Jacotin compiled that year.^[6]

An Ottoman village list from about 1870 showed that Samwil had 23 houses and a population of 62, though the population count included men, only. It was noted as a Bedouin camp, 4,5 km north of Jaffa centre, and 1 km from the sea.^[7]^[8]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Summeil as an ordinary adobe village,^[9] which had a large well, and a cave.^[10]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Mas'udiyeh had a population of 443; 437 Muslims and 6 Christians,^[11] (where the Christians all belonged to the Templar community),^[12] increasing in the 1931 census to 658; 654 Muslim and 4 Christians, in a total of 127 houses.^[13]

On 20 December 1942, Al-Mas'udiyya was annexed into Tel Aviv as part of a municipal border expansion.^[14]

In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 850; 830 Muslims and 20 Christians.^[2]^[3]

Al-Mas'udiyya had an elementary school founded in 1931, and in 1945 it had 31 students.^[5]

1948, aftermath

In 1992, the village site was described: "The area is part of Tel Aviv. All that remains of the village is one deserted house that belonged to Muhammad Baydas. Cactuses, castor-oil (ricinus) plants, and palm and cypress trees further mark the site. Nearby is the al-Mas'udiyya (or Summayl) bridge – an arched, steel structure."^[5]

References

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 219
^ ^a ^b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 27
^ ^a ^b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 52
^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #205. Also gives cause of depopulation.
^ ^a ^b ^c Khalidi, 1992, p. 249
^ Karmon, 1960, p. 161 Archived 2017-12-01 at the Wayback Machine
^ Socin, 1879, p. 160
^ Hartmann, 1883, p. 137 also noted 23 houses
^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 254
^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 275
^ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jaffa, p. 20
^ Barron, 1923, Table XIV, p. 46
^ Mills, 1932, p. 14
^ "⁨תליאביב גדלה־ ב6300 דונם ⁩ | ⁨הארץ⁩ | 28 דצמבר 1942 | אוסף העיתונות | הספרייה הלאומית".