Ma'dhar | |
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| Etymology: from personal name,[1] | |
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  Ma'dhar Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°41′35″N 35°27′51″E / 32.69306°N 35.46417°E | |
| Palestine grid | 193/233 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Tiberias |
| Date of depopulation | April 6, 1948[4] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 11,666 dunams (11.666 km2 or 4.504 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 480[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Abandonment on Arab orders |
| Current Localities | Kefar Qish[5] |
Ma'dhar was a Palestinian village in the Tiberias Subdistrict.
In the late 19th century, Ma'dhar was settled by Algerian migrants from Oued El Berdi and Bouïra under the Ottoman Empire.[6]
The village was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948, by the Golani Brigade of Operation Gideon. It was located 12.5 km southwest of Tiberias.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 130
- ^ 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 #105. Also gives cause of depopulation
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 529
- ^ Ahmad Abbasi, Mustafa (2007). "הקהילה האלג'יראית בגליל משלהי השלטון העות'מני עד שנת 1948". אופקים בגיאוגרפיה. 68/9: 61.