Daliyat al-Rawha'

Daliyat al-Rawha' دالية الروحاء Daliyat al Ruha, Daliyat ar Ruha
Village
Etymology: "The trailing vine of er Rûhah", p.n.[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Daliyat al-Rawha' (click the buttons)
Daliyat al-Rawha' Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°36′7″N 35°04′38″E / 32.60194°N 35.07722°E / 32.60194; 35.07722
Palestine grid	157/223
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Haifa
Date of depopulation	late March 1948[4]
Area [2]
• Total	10,008 dunams (10.008 km2 or 3.864 sq mi)
Population  (1945)
• Total	600[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Whispering campaign
Secondary cause	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Ramot Menashe?[5] Dalia[6]

Daliyat al-Rawha' (Arabic: دالية الروحاء, Dâliyat er Rûhâ, "vineyards (دالية) of al-Rawha") was a Palestinian village located 24.5 kilometers (15.2 mi) southeast of Haifa.^[7] It was the site of the signing of a ceasefire agreement between the forces of the Mamluks and the Crusaders in the 13th century. A small village of 60 Arab Muslims in the late 19th century, the kibbutz of Dalia was established on land purchased in the village in 1939. The population in 1945 reached 600 people: 280 Arabs and 320 Jews.^[2] It was depopulated of its Arab inhabitants in late March during the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine. Its remains lie at the very center of the Ramat Menashe Park of the JNF covered by the kibbutz of the same name^[8].