Ijlil al-Shamaliyya | |
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| Etymology: El Jelil, meaning "illustrious/grand" (Ar), or "a district/circuit"(He)[1] | |
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  Ijlil al-Shamaliyya Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°09′36″N 34°48′42″E / 32.16000°N 34.81167°E | |
| Palestine grid | 132/174 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Jaffa |
| Date of depopulation | End of March- April 3, 1948[4] |
| Area | |
• Total | 2,450 dunams (2.45 km2 or 610 acres) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 190[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
| Current Localities | Glil Yam[5] |
Ijlil al-Shamaliyya (Arabic: إجليل الشمالية Ijlīl aš-Šamāliyya) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict. Established in the 19th century, it was founded by Bani Sa'b tribesmen from the Qalqiliya area and migrants from Egypt.[6] It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 3, 1948.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 214
- ^ 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 No. 196. Also gives cause of depopulation
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 243
- ^ Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 372