Marus, Safad

For the village in Iran, see Marus, Iran.
Marus
ماروس
Etymology: Kh. Marus=the ruin of Marus, where "Marus" comes from a personal name.[1]
Marus is located in Mandatory Palestine
Marus
Marus
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°01′43.38″N 35°31′41.61″E / 33.0287167°N 35.5282250°E / 33.0287167; 35.5282250
Palestine grid199/270
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulation26 May 1948/ 30 October 1948[4]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total80[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationInfluence of nearby town's fall
Secondary causeMilitary assault by Yishuv forces

Marus (Arabic: ماروس) was a Palestinian village in Upper Galilee, 7 km northeast of Safad. In the Roman and medieval period it had Jewish population, and by the 16th century it became entirely Muslim. After a period of desertion, the Ottoman authorities resettled it with Algerian Arabs in the 19th century. It was depopulated in 1948 during the Operation Hiram by the Israeli attacking brigade Sheva' Brigade.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 84
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
  3. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 70
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #41. Also gives causes of depopulation.