Al-Wayziyya

Al-Wayziyya

الويزية
Weiziya^[1]
Al-Wayziyya الويزية Weiziya
Village
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Wayziyya (click the buttons)
	Al-Wayziyya Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 33°0′4″N 35°34′37″E / 33.00111°N 35.57694°E
Palestine grid	204/267
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Safad
Date of depopulation	May 1948
Population (1945)
• Total	100

Al-Wayziyya (Arabic: الويزية) was a Palestinian village in the Safad Subdistrict, located south east of Yarda. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 8.5 km northeast of Safad.

In 1945, the village had a population of 100. A shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh al-Wayzi was located in the village.

^ ^a ^b Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #49. Gives cause of depopulation as "?"
^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 70 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine

Al-Wayziyya الويزية Weiziya^[1]
Village
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Wayziyya (click the buttons)
Al-Wayziyya Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°0′4″N 35°34′37″E / 33.00111°N 35.57694°E / 33.00111; 35.57694
Palestine grid	204/267
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Safad
Date of depopulation	May 1948^[1]
Population (1945)
• Total	100^[2]^[3]