Suruh
سروح | |
|---|---|
Village | |
| Etymology: personal name, possibly from "to flow freely" (water) or "to pasture at large" (cattle)[1] | |
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  Suruh Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°05′06″N 35°17′35″E / 33.08500°N 35.29306°E | |
| Palestine grid | 177/276 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Acre |
| Date of depopulation | early November 1948[4][5] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 18,563 dunams (18.563 km2 or 7.167 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 1,000[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Expulsion by Yishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Shomera,[6] Even Menachem,[6] Kefar Rosenwald,[6] Shtula[6] |
Suruh (Arabic: سروح), was a Palestinian Arab hamlet, located 28.5 kilometers (17.7 mi) northeast of Acre. It became depopulated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 54
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 5
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 41
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #67. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Morrisp506was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b c d Khalidi, 1992, p. 32