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Al-Haram, Jaffa

Al-Haram
Village
Sidna Ali Mosque in Al-Haram
Sidna Ali Mosque in Al-Haram
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Al-Haram is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Haram
Al-Haram
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°11′17″N 34°48′24″E / 32.18806°N 34.80667°E / 32.18806; 34.80667
Palestine grid131/177
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictJaffa
Date of depopulation3 February 1948[3]
Area
 • Total
2,681 dunams (2.681 km2 or 1.035 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
520[1][2]
Cause(s) of depopulationFear of being caught up in the fighting

Al-Haram (El Haram ʿAly Ibn ʿAleim, also Sayyiduna Ali or Sidna Ali "sanctuary of ʿAli [Ibn ʿAleim]",[4] Hebrew: אל-חרם, Arabic: الحرم), was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict,[5] in Mandatory Palestine. It was located 16 km (10 miles) north of Jaffa, adjacent to the ruins of the medieval walled city of Arsuf, and its extent was estimated to range between 9,653 and 11,698 dunams of which 5,150 were accounted for in the cadastral registrations.[5] It was depopulated during the 1948 war.

  1. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 27
  2. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 52
  3. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #195
  4. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 174
  5. ^ a b Essaid, 2014, pp. 175-213

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الحرم (يافا) Arabic Al-Haram, Jaffa HA אל-חרם HE Al-Haram, Jaffa ID الحرم، یافا UR

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