Suruh

Suruh

سروح
Suruh سروح
Village
	Etymology: personal name, possibly from "to flow freely" (water) or "to pasture at large" (cattle)
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Suruh (click the buttons)
	Suruh Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 33°05′06″N 35°17′35″E / 33.08500°N 35.29306°E
Palestine grid	177/276
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Acre
Date of depopulation	early November 1948
Area
• Total	18,563 dunams (18.563 km2 or 7.167 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	1,000
Cause(s) of depopulation	Expulsion by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Shomera, Even Menachem, Kefar Rosenwald, Shtula

Suruh (Arabic: سروح), was a Palestinian Arab hamlet, located 28.5 kilometers (17.7 mi) northeast of Acre. It became depopulated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 54
^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 5
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 41
^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #67. Also gives cause of depopulation.
^ Cite error: The named reference Morrisp506 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Khalidi, 1992, p. 32

Suruh سروح
Village
Etymology: personal name, possibly from "to flow freely" (water) or "to pasture at large" (cattle)^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Suruh (click the buttons)
Suruh Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°05′06″N 35°17′35″E / 33.08500°N 35.29306°E / 33.08500; 35.29306
Palestine grid	177/276
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Acre
Date of depopulation	early November 1948^[4]^[5]
Area
• Total	18,563 dunams (18.563 km² or 7.167 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	1,000^[2]^[3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Expulsion by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Shomera,^[6] Even Menachem,^[6] Kefar Rosenwald,^[6] Shtula^[6]