Al-Mirr

Al-Mirr

المرّ / المحمودية
*Molendina desubter Mirabellum*
Al-Mirr المرّ / المحمودية Molendina desubter Mirabellum
	Remains of Mill building
	Etymology: "The passage".
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Mirr (click the buttons)
	Al-Mirr Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 32°06′43″N 34°54′57″E / 32.11194°N 34.91583°E
Palestine grid	142/168
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Jaffa
Date of depopulation	February or March, 1948
Area
• Total	51 dunams (5.1 ha or 13 acres)
Population (1945)
• Total	170
Cause(s) of depopulation	Fear of being caught up in the fighting

Al-Mirr, also named Mahmudiyeh ("the property of Mahmud"),^[1] was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict, which was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on February 1, 1948.

^ ^a ^b Palmer, 1881, p.216
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 27
^ ^a ^b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 52
^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #199. Also gives cause of depopulation

Al-Mirr المرّ / المحمودية Molendina desubter Mirabellum
Remains of Mill building
Etymology: "The passage".^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Mirr (click the buttons)
Al-Mirr Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°06′43″N 34°54′57″E / 32.11194°N 34.91583°E / 32.11194; 34.91583
Palestine grid	142/168
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Jaffa
Date of depopulation	February or March, 1948^[4]
Area ^[3]
• Total	51 dunams (5.1 ha or 13 acres)
Population (1945)
• Total	170^[2]^[3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Fear of being caught up in the fighting