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Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

This article is about the former Palestinian village in Tiberias Sub-district. For the former Palestinian village in Haifa Sub-district, see Abu Shusha, Haifa. For the former Palestinian village in Ramle Sub-district, see Abu Shusha.
Ghuwayr Abu Shusha
غُويّر أبو شوشة
Maqam Sheikh Abu Shusha
Maqam Sheikh Abu Shusha
Etymology: from personal name; meaning the “father of” wearing “a top knot”[1]
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Ghuwayr Abu Shusha (click the buttons)
Ghuwayr Abu Shusha is located in Mandatory Palestine
Ghuwayr Abu Shusha
Ghuwayr Abu Shusha
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°51′13″N 35°30′26″E / 32.85361°N 35.50722°E / 32.85361; 35.50722
Palestine grid197/251
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictTiberias
Date of depopulation21 and 28 April 1948[4]
Area
[3]
 • Total
8,609 dunams (8.609 km2 or 3.324 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
1,240[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Secondary causeInfluence of nearby town's fall
Current Localities Ginosar,[5] Livnim[5]

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 21, 1948. It was located 8 km north of Tiberias, nearby Wadi Rubadiyya.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 128
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 12
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 72
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #93. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  5. ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p. 517

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