Arab al-Bawati

Arab al-Bawati
عرب البواطي/خربة الحكمة
Village
Etymology: Kh. el Hakeimîyeh, the ruin of el Hakeimîyeh[1]
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Arab al-Bawati is located in Mandatory Palestine
Arab al-Bawati
Arab al-Bawati
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°31′41″N 35°32′21″E / 32.52806°N 35.53917°E / 32.52806; 35.53917
Palestine grid200/214
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictBaysan
Date of depopulation16 or 20 May 1948[4]
Area
 • Total
10,641 dunams (10.641 km2 or 4.109 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
520[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationInfluence of nearby town's fall

Arab al-Bawati (Arabic: عرب البواطي/خربة الحكمة), was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

It was located 4 kilometres north east of Baysan in the Baysan valley.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 162
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 6
  3. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 43
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #135. Also gives cause of depopulation, with a "?"