Tulayl

Tulayl
تليل
People of Tulayl, before WWII
People of Tulayl, before WWII
Etymology: The small mound.[1]
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Tulayl is located in Mandatory Palestine
Tulayl
Tulayl
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°03′03″N 35°37′12″E / 33.05083°N 35.62000°E / 33.05083; 35.62000
Palestine grid208/272
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationlate April 1948[3]
Area
 • Total
5,324 dunams (5.324 km2 or 2.056 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
340 (together with Husayniyya)[2]

Tulayl (Arabic: تليل) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict located 14.5 kilometers (9.0 mi) northeast of Safad. It was situated on a hill near Lake Hula. Together with the nearby village of al-Husayniyya, it had a population of 340 in 1945. Tulayl was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War.[4]

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 96
  2. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 71
  3. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #37. Morris gives date and cause of depopulation with "?"
  4. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 500