Al-Ruways

Al-Ruways
الرويس
al-Ruweis
Etymology: "The little hilltop", or "headland"[1]
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Al-Ruways is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Ruways
Al-Ruways
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°51′50″N 35°10′41″E / 32.86389°N 35.17806°E / 32.86389; 35.17806
Palestine grid167/252
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictAcre
Date of depopulationJuly 15–16, 1948[4]
Area
[3]
 • Total1,163 dunams (1.163 km2 or 287 acres)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total330[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces

Al-Ruways (Arabic: الرويس), was a Palestinian Arab village on a rocky hill located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) southeast of Acre and south of the village of al-Damun. Its population in 1945 was 330. Al-Ruways was depopulated following its capture by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 115.
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 4
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 41.
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #91. Also gives the cause of depopulation.