Al-Dirdara

Al-Dirdara
الدردارة
Village
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Al-Dirdara is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Dirdara
Al-Dirdara
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°03′05″N 35°38′24″E / 33.05139°N 35.64000°E / 33.05139; 35.64000
Palestine grid209/272
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay 1, 1948
Area
 • Total6,361 dunams (6.361 km2 or 2.456 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total100[1][2]

Al-Dirdara (Arabic: الدردارة), also known as Mazari ed Daraja, was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948, under Operation Yiftach. It was located 13 km east of Safad.

In 1945 it had a population of 100.

  1. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
  2. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 70 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine