Suruh
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 Suruh
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| Arabic | سروح |
| Sub-district | Acre |
| Coordinates | 33°05′05.60″N 35°17′34.48″E / 33.084889°N 35.2929111°ECoordinates: 33°05′05.60″N 35°17′34.48″E / 33.084889°N 35.2929111°E |
| Population | 1,000 (1945) |
| Area | 18,563 dunums |
| Date of depopulation | early November 1948[1][2] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Expulsion by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Shomera, Even Menachem, Shtula, Zar'it |
Suruh (Arabic: سروح) was a Palestinian Arab hamlet, located 28.5 kilometers (17.7 mi) northeast of Acre.
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[edit] History
Suruh contained two khirbats ("sites of ruins") with a variety of ancient artifacts, including cisterns, and rock-hewn tombs.[3]
By the late 19th century had 90, mostly Muslim residents who lived by agriculture and raising live-stock.[4]
During the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the inhabitants of Suruh, the neighbouring hamlet of Nabi Rubin and the main village of Tarbikha, were given expulsion orders by Israeli forces.[2][3] A predominantly Sunni Muslim hamlet, Suruh and Nabi Rubin were satellite hamlets of Tarbikha, a largely Shi'ite village. Most of Suruh's inhabitants and those the neighbouring localities ended up leaving to Lebanon.[2]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Morris, 2004, p.xvii, village #67. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- ^ a b c Morris, 2004, p. 506.
- ^ a b Welcome to Suruh, Palestine Remembered, http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Suruh/index.html, retrieved 2007-12-12
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP, Vol. I, p.149. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 31
[edit] Bibliography
- Conder, Claude Reignier and H.H. Kitchener (1881): The Survey of Western Palestine: memoirs of the topography, orography, hydrography, and archaeology. London:Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. vol 1
- Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center, http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html
- Khalidi, Walid (1992), All That Remains, Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, ISBN 0-88728-224-5
- Morris, Benny (2004), The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6, http://books.google.com/?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=benny+morris&q
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