Al-Imara

al-Imara
العمارة
Etymology: "the Building"
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al-Imara is located in Mandatory Palestine
al-Imara
al-Imara
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°18′11″N 34°31′14″E / 31.30306°N 34.52056°E / 31.30306; 34.52056
Palestine grid104/080
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictBeersheba
Date of depopulationOctober 1948
Cause(s) of depopulationExpulsion by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesUrim[1] Ofakim[2]

al-Imara (Arabic: العمارة), was a Palestinian village, located in the northern Negev Desert 27 kilometers (17 mi) northwest of Beersheba.

  1. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 73
  2. ^ Davis, Uri (2008), In Search of the Abu Sitta Sword (PDF), p. 12, archived from the original on 2010-11-01{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)