Sabbarin

Sabbarin
صبارين
Sabarin
Sabbarim
Sabbarin, 1940
Sabbarin, 1940
Etymology: "rough ground"[1]
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Sabbarin is located in Mandatory Palestine
Sabbarin
Sabbarin
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°34′23″N 35°1′23″E / 32.57306°N 35.02306°E / 32.57306; 35.02306
Palestine grid152/219
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictHaifa
Date of depopulation12–14 May 1948[4]
Area
[3]
 • Total
25,307 dunams (25.307 km2 or 9.771 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
1,700[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesRamot Menashe, Amikam

Subbarin was a Palestinian Arab village located 28 kilometers south of Haifa. It was depopulated and destroyed during the 1948 Palestine war as part of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and the Nakba.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 153
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 14
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 49
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #159. Also gives cause of depopulation