Ubeidiya, Tiberias

This article is about the former Palestinian village near Tiberias. For other sites by this name, see Ubeidiya.
Al-'Ubaydiyya
العبيدية
Village
Remains of a gristmill
Remains of a gristmill
Etymology: From personal name[1]
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Ubeidiya, Tiberias (click the buttons)
Al-'Ubaydiyya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-'Ubaydiyya
Al-'Ubaydiyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°41′21″N 35°33′42″E / 32.68917°N 35.56167°E / 32.68917; 35.56167
Palestine grid202/232
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictTiberias
Date of depopulationMarch 5, 1948[4]
Area
[3]
 • Total5,173 dunams (5.173 km2 or 1.997 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total870[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationFear of being caught up in the fighting

Al-'Ubaydiyya (Arabic: العبيدية) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on March 3, 1948. It was located 11 km south of Tiberias, situated close to the Jordan River.

Today the site is a desolate hill named Tel Ubeidiya.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 121
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 12
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 73
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #104. Also gives cause of depopulation