Tabsur

Tabsur (Khirbat 'Azzun)
(تبصر(خربة عزون
Tabsar, Khirbet 'Azzun
Village
Etymology: from personal name [1]
1870s map
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Tabsur (Khirbat 'Azzun) is located in Mandatory Palestine
Tabsur (Khirbat 'Azzun)
Tabsur (Khirbat 'Azzun)
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°11′38″N 34°52′44″E / 32.19389°N 34.87889°E / 32.19389; 34.87889
Palestine grid138/177
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictTulkarm
Date of depopulation3 April 1948[2]
Area
 • Total5,328 dunams (5.328 km2 or 2.057 sq mi)
Cause of evacuationExpulsion by the Jewish Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesRa'anana[3] and Batzra[3]

Tabsur (Arabic: تبصر), also Khirbat 'Azzun (Arabic: خربة عزون), was a Palestinian village located 19 kilometres southwest of Tulkarm. In 1931, the village had 218 houses and an elementary school for boys.[3] Its Palestinian population was expelled during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.[4]

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 176
  2. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #192. Also gives cause of depopulation
  3. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference Khalidi 1992, p. 562 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Welcome to Tabsur". Palestine Remembered. Retrieved 2007-12-18.