Yubla

Yubla
يبلى
Hubeleth
Village
Etymology: Kh. Yebla, the ruin of Yebla, p.n.[1]
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Yubla is located in Mandatory Palestine
Yubla
Yubla
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°34′36″N 35°28′10″E / 32.57667°N 35.46944°E / 32.57667; 35.46944
Palestine grid194/220
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictBaysan
Date of depopulation16 May 1948[4]
Area
 • Total5,165 dunams (5.165 km2 or 1.994 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total210[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationInfluence of nearby town's fall

Yubla (Arabic: يبلى, known to the Crusaders as Hubeleth), was a Palestinian village, located 9 kilometers north of Bisan in present-day Israel. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.[5]

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 163
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 7
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 44
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii village #113. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  5. ^ Welcome to Yubla, Palestine Remembered, retrieved 2007-12-06