Al-Rihaniyya
Rihaniya, -al[1] | |
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| Etymology: "Sweet basil"[2][3] | |
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  Al-Rihaniyya Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°37′12″N 35°05′13″E / 32.62000°N 35.08694°E | |
| Palestine grid | 158/225 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Haifa |
| Date of depopulation | Not known[1] |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 240[4][5] |
| Current Localities | Ramat HaShofet[2] Ein HaEmek[2] |
Al-Rihaniyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on 30 April 1948 as part of the battle of Mishmar HaEmek. It was located 25 km southeast of Haifa and 3 km northwest of Wadi al-Mileh.
- ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #163. Gives both date and cause of depopulation as "Not known".
- ^ a b c Khalidi, 1992, p. 185
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 149
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 14
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 49