Al-Dalhamiyya

Al-Dalhamiyya
الدلهمية
Village
Etymology: from a family name[1]
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Al-Dalhamiyya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Dalhamiyya
Al-Dalhamiyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°39′38″N 35°35′52″E / 32.66056°N 35.59778°E / 32.66056; 35.59778
Palestine grid204/230
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictTiberias
Date of depopulationApril 15, 1948
Area
 • Total
2,852 dunams (2.852 km2 or 1.101 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
410[2][3]

Al-Dalhamiyya (Arabic: الدلهمية) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 15, 1948, under Operation Gideon. It was located 14 km south of Tiberias, on the north bank of the Yarmuk River, on the border between Mandatory Palestine and Transjordan.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 160
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 12
  3. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 72