Al-'Ulmaniyya

Al-'Ulmaniyya
العلمانية
'Ulmaniya, al[1]
Village
Al-'Ulmaniyya 1946
Al-'Ulmaniyya 1946
Etymology: Kh. ’Almânîyeh, the ruin of ’Almânîyeh[2]
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Al-'Ulmaniyya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-'Ulmaniyya
Al-'Ulmaniyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°04′24″N 35°35′12″E / 33.07333°N 35.58667°E / 33.07333; 35.58667
Palestine grid205/275
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationApril 20, 1948[1]
Area
[4]
 • Total
1,169 dunams (1.169 km2 or 289 acres)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
260[3][4]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces

Al-'Ulmaniyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 20, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 14.5 km northeast of Safad.

  1. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #30. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  2. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 82
  3. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 11
  4. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 71 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine