Hadatha

Hadatha
Etymology: "new"[1]
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Hadatha is located in Mandatory Palestine
Hadatha
Hadatha
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°40′59″N 35°29′19″E / 32.68306°N 35.48861°E / 32.68306; 35.48861
Palestine grid196/232
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictTiberias
Date of depopulationMay 12, 1948[4]
Area
 • Total10,310 dunams (10.31 km2 or 3.98 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total520[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationAbandonment on Arab orders

Hadatha, also El Hadetheh or Hadateh, was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias, located 12.5 km southwest of Tiberias. It was depopulated in the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine.

  1. ^ Palmer 1881, p. 126.
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 12
  3. ^ "Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, page 72". 1970.
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii village #106; p. 177 gives cause of depopulation