Al-Qudayriyya

Al-Qudayriyya
القديرية
Qudeiriya, al-[1]
Village
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Al-Qudayriyya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Qudayriyya
Al-Qudayriyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°54′17″N 35°30′33″E / 32.90472°N 35.50917°E / 32.90472; 35.50917
Palestine grid197/256
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay 4, 1948[1]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
390[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Secondary causeExpulsion by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesKahal[4]

Al-Qudayriyya (Arabic: القديرية) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948, by the Haganah and the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Matate, a sub-operation of Operation Yiftach. It was located 6.5 km south of Safad, situated 1 km east of Wadi al-'Amud.

History

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described nearby Kh. en Nueiriyeh[5] as having "heaps of drafted masonry on the top of terraced hill, with a rock-cut well and three rock-cut wine-presses".[6] According to Khalidi, these were remains of Roman and Byzantine eras.

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, Qudairiyeh had a population of 194; all Muslim,[7] decreasing in the 1931 census to 72, still all Muslims, in a total of 14 houses.[8]

In the 1945 statistics, the population was 390 Muslims,[2] with a total of 12,487 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[3] Of this, 2,029 dunums were used for cereals,[9] while 10,458 dunams were non-cultivable area.[10]

The village had a shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh al-Rumi and the Khirbat al-Nuwayriyya is located in the village.[4]

1948, aftermath

The village was depopulate during Operation Matateh, on May 4, 1948.[11][12][13]

References

  1. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #74. Also gives causes of depopulation.
  2. ^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 71 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p. 487
  5. ^ meaning "the ruin of the gypsies", according to Palmer, 1881, p. 129
  6. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 404
  7. ^ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. 42
  8. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 109
  9. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 120
  10. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 170
  11. ^ Morris, 2004, p. 249
  12. ^ Morris, 2004, p. 445
  13. ^ Morris, 2004, p. 460

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