Al-Buwayziyya

Al-Buwayziyya
البويزية والميس
Buweiziya,[1]
Village
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Al-Buwayziyya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Buwayziyya
Al-Buwayziyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°09′32″N 35°34′13″E / 33.15889°N 35.57028°E / 33.15889; 35.57028
Palestine grid203/284
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay 11, 1948[1]
Area
[3]
 • Total
14,620 dunams (14.62 km2 or 5.64 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
510[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationInfluence of nearby town's fall

Al-Buwayziyya (Arabic: البويزية والميس) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 11, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 22 km northeast of Safad.

In the 1944/45 statistics it had a population 510 Muslims.[2][3] The village had elementary school for boys which was founded in 1937.

  1. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #18. Also gives cause of depopulation
  2. ^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 9
  3. ^ a b c Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 69 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine