Taytaba
طيطبا Teitaba[1] | |
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| Etymology: "Watchtower"[2] | |
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  Taytaba Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°00′48″N 35°28′35″E / 33.01333°N 35.47639°E | |
| Palestine grid | 194/268 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | May 1948[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 8,453 dunams (8.453 km2 or 3.264 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 530[3][4] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
| Current Localities | None |
Taytaba (Arabic: طيطبا, also spelled Teitaba) was a Palestinian-Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict, located 5 kilometers north of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine in May 1948 under Operation Hiram. In 1945 it had a population of 530 and a total area of 8,453 dunams, 99.8% of which was Arab-owned.[5]
It was situated in a rocky area located along the crest of a basaltic hill that overlooks Wadi Taytaba, a tributary of Wadi Waqqas, to the southeast. It was connected to a highway leading to Safad via a secondary road and connected to many of the surrounding villages through secondary roads as well.[5]
- ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #44. Gives cause of depopulation as "?"
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Palmer95was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.71
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 11
- ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p. 499.