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Al-Mazar, Jenin
Al-Mazar
المزار | |
|---|---|
Village | |
| Etymology: "shrine", "a place one visits"[1] | |
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  Al-Mazar Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°31′38″N 35°21′33″E / 32.52722°N 35.35917°E | |
| Palestine grid | 184/214 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Jenin |
| Date of depopulation | 30 May 1948[4] |
| Area | |
• Total | 14,501 dunams (14.501 km2 or 5.599 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 270[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Prazon, Meitav, and Gan Ner |
Al-Mazar (Arabic: المزار) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jenin. Situated on Mount Gilboa, its history stretched back to the period of Mamluk rule over Palestine (13th century). An agricultural village, its villagers traced their ancestry to nomads descended from a Sufi mystic from Jaba', Syria.[5][6]
Al-Mazar was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine war, and incorporated into the newly established state of Israel.[5] The Israeli villages of Prazon, Meitav, and Gan Ner were established on al-Mazar's former lands.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 165
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 Archived 2018-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54 Archived 2012-02-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #122. Also gives cause of depopulation
- ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p. 337
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