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Barfiliya
Barfiliya
برفيلية Barfilia, Barfilya, Berfilya, Berfilia[1] | |
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 Ruins of the village, 2008 | |
| Etymology: a personal name[2] | |
.jpg) 1870s map .jpg) 1940s map.jpg) modern map .jpg) 1940s with modern overlay mapA series of historical maps of the area around Barfiliya (click the buttons) | |
  Barfiliya Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°54′39″N 34°59′18″E / 31.91083°N 34.98833°E | |
| Palestine grid | 149/146 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Ramle |
| Date of depopulation | July 14, 1948[5] |
| Area | |
• Total | 7,134 dunams (7.134 km2 or 2.754 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 730[3][4] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Military firing range |
Barfiliya (Arabic: برفيلية) was a Palestinian village located 10.5 kilometres (6.5 mi) east of Ramla that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.[6] Located on a tell, excavations conducted there by Israeli archaeologists beginning in 1995 found artifacts dating back to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) period (circa 9,500-8,000 BCE).
Barfiliya lay on a road between Jerusalem and Lydda that was built in Roman times. In the early Ottoman era, it was a small village of 44 inhabitants. By 1945, before the end of the Mandatory Palestine and the outbreak of 1948 Arab–Israeli War, its population had grown to 730. Depopulated on July 14, 1948, Barifiliya was subsequently destroyed.
- ^ Palestine Exploration Fund, 1838, p. 84
- ^ Palmer 1881, p. 287
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 29
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 66
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #241. Also gives the cause for depopulation.
- ^ "Barfiliya". Palestine Remembered. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
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