Kafr Sabt
كفر سبت Kafar Sabt | |
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Village | |
 Kafr Sabt, from the air, 1937 | |
| Etymology: "Village of Sabbath"[1] | |
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  Kafr Sabt Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°44′37″N 35°26′27″E / 32.74361°N 35.44083°E | |
| Palestine grid | 191/238 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Tiberias |
| Date of depopulation | April 22, 1948[4] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 9,850 dunams (9.85 km2 or 3.80 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 480[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
| Current Localities | Sdeh Ilan,[5] Ilaniya Sharona |
Kafr Sabt (Arabic: كفر سبت) was a Palestinian Arab village of nearly 500 situated on a sloping plain in the eastern Lower Galilee located 10.5 kilometers (6.5 mi) southwest of Tiberias. It was depopulated in 1948.
In the late 19th century, Kafr Sabt was settled by Algerian migrants under the auspices of the Ottoman Empire.[6]
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 127
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 12
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 72
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #101. Also gives the cause of depopulation
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxii, settlement #179, 1949
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