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Al-Nuqayb

Al-Nuqayb
Village
Villagers of Al-Nuqayb, 1939
Villagers of Al-Nuqayb, 1939
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Al-Nuqayb is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Nuqayb
Al-Nuqayb
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°47′57″N 35°38′25″E / 32.79917°N 35.64028°E / 32.79917; 35.64028
Palestine grid210/245
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictTiberias
Date of depopulationMay 14, 1948[3]
Area
 • Total
976 dunams (97.6 ha or 241 acres)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
310[1][2]
Cause(s) of depopulationExpulsion by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesEin Gev[4]

Al-Nuqayb was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 15, 1948. It was located 10 km east across the lake from Tiberias. bordering the Wadi al-Muzaffar and Wadi Samakh. al-Nuqayb was named after the Bedouin tribe of 'Arab al-Nuqayb.

  1. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 12
  2. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 72
  3. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #370. Also gives cause of depopulation
  4. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 536

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النقيب (فلسطين) Arabic النقیب، طبریا UR

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