Ijlil al-Qibliyya

Ijlil al-Qibliyya
إجليل القبلية
Jalil al-Qibliyya[1]
Remains of Ijlil al-Qibliyya, in 2010
Remains of Ijlil al-Qibliyya, in 2010
Etymology: El Jelil, meaning "illustrious/grand" (Ar), or "a district/circuit"(He)[2]
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Ijlil al-Qibliyya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Ijlil al-Qibliyya
Ijlil al-Qibliyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°09′36″N 34°48′42″E / 32.16000°N 34.81167°E / 32.16000; 34.81167
Palestine grid132/174
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictJaffa
Date of depopulationEnd of March- April 3, 1948[5]
Area
[4]
 • Total8,692 dunams (8.692 km2 or 3.356 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total470[3][1][4]
Cause(s) of depopulationFear of being caught up in the fighting

Ijlil al-Qibliyya, also al-Jalil, was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 3, 1948.

In 1945 the village has a population of 680, 210 of which were Jewish. Ijlil al-Qibliya was named after al-Shaykh Salih 'Abd al-Jalil, whose maqam was located in the village.

  1. ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p. 241
  2. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 214
  3. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 27
  4. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 52
  5. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii village #196. Also gives cause of depopulation