Khirbat al-Sawamir
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| Khirbat al-Sawamir | |
| Arabic | |
| Sub-district | Haifa |
| Population | 1931 (1945) |
| Area | |
| Date of depopulation | May 22, 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation |
Khirbat al-Sawamir was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 22, 1948. It was located 22 kilometres south of Haifa.
The census of 1596 indicated it had a population of 17. In 1931 this had grown to 1,439.
[edit] References
- 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
- 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.
- Mülinen, Egbert Friedrich von 1908, Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Karmels "Separateabdruck aus der Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palëstina-Vereins Band XXX (1907) Seite 117-207 und Band XXXI (1908) Seite 1-258." ("es-sawamir": p. 284 ff. )
Coordinates: 32°37′43″N 34°57′30″E / 32.62861°N 34.95833°E
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