Qabba'a

Qabba'a

قبّاعة
Qabba'a قبّاعة
Village
	Etymology: "large-headed"
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Qabba'a (click the buttons)
	Qabba'a Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 32°59′55″N 35°32′17″E / 32.99861°N 35.53806°E
Palestine grid	200/267
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Safad
Date of depopulation	May 26, 1948
Area
• Total	13,817 dunams (13.817 km2 or 5.335 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	460
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces

Qabba'a was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 26, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 6 km northeast of Safad.

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 76
^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
^ ^a ^b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 70
^ Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village # 48. Also gives the cause of depopulation.

Qabba'a قبّاعة
Village
Etymology: "large-headed"^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Qabba'a (click the buttons)
Qabba'a Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°59′55″N 35°32′17″E / 32.99861°N 35.53806°E / 32.99861; 35.53806
Palestine grid	200/267
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Safad
Date of depopulation	May 26, 1948^[4]
Area ^[3]
• Total	13,817 dunams (13.817 km² or 5.335 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	460^[2]^[3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces