Al-Bira, Baysan

al-Bira
البيرة
Village
Etymology: the fortress[1]
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al-Bira is located in Mandatory Palestine
al-Bira
al-Bira
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°36′29″N 35°30′14″E / 32.60806°N 35.50389°E / 32.60806; 35.50389
Palestine grid197/223
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictBaysan
Date of depopulation16 May 1948[4]
Area
 • Total6,866 dunams (6.866 km2 or 2.651 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total260[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationInfluence of nearby town's fall

Al-Bira (Arabic: البيرة), is a depopulated former Palestinian village located 7.5 km north of Baysan. During Operation Gideon, the village was occupied by the Golani Brigade. [5]

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 160
  2. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 6
  3. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 43
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii village #112. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  5. ^ al-Bira, PalestineRemembered.com.