Al-Mansura, Tiberias

This article is about the former Palestinian village in Tiberias Sub-district. For other uses, see El Mansurah (disambiguation).
Al-Mansura
المنصورة
Village
Etymology: Building[1]
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Al-Mansura is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Mansura
Al-Mansura
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°53′29″N 35°25′01″E / 32.89139°N 35.41694°E / 32.89139; 35.41694
Palestine grid189/255
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictTiberias
Date of depopulationMay 10, 1948
Population
 • Total
2,140 together with Maghar[2]
Current LocalitiesChazon[3] Tefashot,[3] Kallanit,[3] Ravid[3]

Al-Mansura (Arabic: المنصورة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 10, 1948. It was located 16 kilometres northwest of Tiberias.[3]

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, pp. 9, 130
  2. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 72
  3. ^ a b c d e Khalidi, 1992, p. 533