Yajur, Haifa
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| Arabic | ياجور |
| Sub-district | Haifa |
| Coordinates | 32°45′30.6″N 35°03′26.3″E / 32.7585°N 35.057306°ECoordinates: 32°45′30.6″N 35°03′26.3″E / 32.7585°N 35.057306°E |
| Population | 610 (1945[1]) |
| Area | 2,720 dunums |
| Date of depopulation | April 25, 1948[2] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Secondary cause | Influence of nearby town's fall |
Yajur (Arabic: ياجور, Yâjûr) was a Palestinian Arab village located 9.5 km southeast of Haifa.
Yajur was mentioned as part of the domain of the Crusaders during the hudna between the Crusaders based in Acre and the Mamluk sultan al-Mansur (Qalawun) declared in 1283.[3]
In 1921,some of the land of Yajur was sold by Nasrallah Kuri to Yehoshua Hankin.
It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 25, 1948.
The village population in 1945 was 610. Fragments of glass, building foundations, and tombs with sarcophagi are located in the old village area today.
[edit] References
- ^ Hadawi, 1970, p. 49. Also gives land area in dunams.
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #143. Also gives causes of depopulation.
- ^ Dan Barag (1979). "A new source concerning the ultimate borders of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem". Israel Exploration Journal 29: pp. 197-217.
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- 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
- Cohen, Hillel (2008), Army of Shadows, Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948, University of California Press, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Shadows,_Palestinian_Collaboration_with_Zionism,_1917-1948
- 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." El-Yadschur: p. 178 ff.
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