al-Sumayriyya
السُميريه Someleria, Katasir | |
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 The aqueduct in al-Sumayriyya | |
| Etymology: "Tawny" or "Brown"[1] | |
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  al-Sumayriyya Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°58′22″N 35°05′36″E / 32.97278°N 35.09333°E | |
| Palestine grid | 159/264 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Acre |
| Date of depopulation | 14 May 1948[4] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 8,542 dunams (8.542 km2 or 3.298 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 760[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Regba, Lohamei HaGeta'ot,[5][6] Shomrat[6] |
Al-Sumayriyya (Arabic: السُميريه, Katasir in Canaanite times, Someleria during Crusader rule), was a Palestinian village located six kilometers north of Acre that was depopulated after it was captured by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.[7] The ruins of the village are today in the outskirts of the Israeli moshav of Regba.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 54
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 5
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 41
- ^ Morris, 2004, p.xvii, village #87. Also gives cause of depopulation
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxi, settlement #53. January 1949
- ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p. 31
- ^ Welcome to Al-Sumayriyya, Palestine Remembered, archived from the original on 2008-05-16, retrieved 2007-12-03