Al-Maghar
For other uses, see Maghar.
Al-Maghar | |
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Al-Maghar | |
Subdistrict | Ramle |
Coordinates | 31°50′18.65″N 34°46′56.10″E / 31.8385139°N 34.7822500°ECoordinates: 31°50′18.65″N 34°46′56.10″E / 31.8385139°N 34.7822500°E |
Palestine grid | 129/138 |
Population | 1,740 (1945) |
Date of depopulation | 18 May 1948[1] |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Current localities | Beit Elazari[2] |
al-Maghar was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated by the Givati Brigade during Operation Barak on 18 May 1948. It was located 12 km southwest of Ramla, situated north of Wadi al-Maghar.
In 1945, it had a population of 1,740. It had an elementary school for boys and in 1945, it had an enrollment of 170 students.
In the 8th century, the village was the birthplace of the Islamic jurist Abu al-Hasan Muhammad al-Maghari.
The Battle of Mughar Ridge between British and Ottoman forces in the World War I was fought in the environs of Al-Maghar.
References
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Clermont-Ganneau, Charles Simon (1874). "Letters from M. Clermont-Ganneau". Palestine Exploration Quarterly. 6: 261–280. (p, 275)
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (pp. 411, 418, 427)
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- Guérin, Victor (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 1: Judee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (p. 36)
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Centre.
- Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2. (p. 146)
- Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas (PDF). Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
- Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 272)
External links
- Welcome To al-Maghar
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 16: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- al-Maghar, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
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