Al-Sumayriyya

al-Sumayriyya
السُميريه
Someleria, Katasir
The aqueduct in al-Sumayriyya
The aqueduct in al-Sumayriyya
Etymology: "Tawny" or "Brown"[1]
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al-Sumayriyya is located in Mandatory Palestine
al-Sumayriyya
al-Sumayriyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°58′22″N 35°05′36″E / 32.97278°N 35.09333°E / 32.97278; 35.09333
Palestine grid159/264
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictAcre
Date of depopulation14 May 1948[4]
Area
 • Total8,542 dunams (8.542 km2 or 3.298 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total760[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesRegba, Lohamei HaGeta'ot,[5][6] Shomrat[6]

Al-Sumayriyya (Arabic: السُميريه, Katasir in Canaanite times, Someleria during Crusader rule), was a Palestinian village located six kilometers north of Acre that was depopulated after it was captured by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.[7] The ruins of the village are today in the outskirts of the Israeli moshav of Regba.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 54
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 5
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 41
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p.xvii, village #87. Also gives cause of depopulation
  5. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxi, settlement #53. January 1949
  6. ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p. 31
  7. ^ Welcome to Al-Sumayriyya, Palestine Remembered, archived from the original on 2008-05-16, retrieved 2007-12-03