Al-Mansura, Safad

See El Mansurah (disambiguation) for other sites with similar names.
Al-Mansura
المنصوره
Village
Al-Mansura (Mansoura) marked on John MacGregor's map. January 1869.
Al-Mansura (Mansoura) marked on John MacGregor's map. January 1869.
Etymology: Mansûr’s place[1]
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
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Al-Mansura is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Mansura
Al-Mansura
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°12′59″N 35°38′26″E / 33.21639°N 35.64056°E / 33.21639; 35.64056
Palestine grid210/291
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay 25, 1948[3]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total360[2]
Cause(s) of depopulationWhispering campaign
Current LocalitiesShe'ar Yashuv[4]

Al-Mansura (Arabic: المنصوره) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was located 31 kilometres (19 mi) northeast of Safad on the Banyas River, to the south of what is now Dafna.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 29
  2. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
  3. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #7. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  4. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 474