Awlam
عولم 'Ulam | |
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Etymology: possibly from the Arabic form of “a full well”[1] | |
Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
Coordinates: 32°39′59″N 35°29′57″E / 32.66639°N 35.49917°E | |
Palestine grid | 197/230 |
Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
Subdistrict | Tiberias |
Date of depopulation | April 6, 1948[4] |
Area | |
• Total | 18,546 dunams (18.5 km2 or 7.1 sq mi) |
Population (1945) | |
• Total | 720[2][3] |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Abandonment on Arab orders |
Awlam (Arabic: عولم) was a Palestinian village 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south of Tiberias situated on the slopes of the westward Wadi Awlam.[5]
In the late Ottoman period it was a ruin, resettled by Algerian migrants under the auspices of the Ottomans.[6]
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