Al-Butaymat

Al-Butaymat
البطيمات
Buteimat, al-Buteimat
Village
Etymology: "the place with the terebinths."[1]
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Al-Butaymat is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Butaymat
Al-Butaymat
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°33′12″N 35°5′38″E / 32.55333°N 35.09389°E / 32.55333; 35.09389
Palestine grid159/217
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictHaifa
Date of depopulationMay 1948[4]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total110[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationFear of being caught up in the fighting
Current LocalitiesGal'ed[5] Former: Regavim[6]

Al-Butaymat (Arabic: البطيمات, El Buteimât) was a Palestinian Arab village the Haifa Subdistrict, located 31 kilometers (19 mi) southeast of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948, under the Battle of Mishmar HaEmek.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 154
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 13
  3. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 47 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii village #156. Also gives cause of depopulation, but cause indicated in brackets by a question mark.
  5. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 157
  6. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xx, settlement #15, July, 1948. Moved to the land of Qannir in 1949.