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Yarda, Safad

Yarda
ياردا
Village
Well at Yarda
Well at Yarda
Etymology: Kh. Wakkâs, the ruin of the man with a broken neck[1] Kh. Lôzîyeh, the ruin of the almond tree[2]
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Yarda is located in Mandatory Palestine
Yarda
Yarda
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°0′27″N 35°35′38″E / 33.00750°N 35.59389°E / 33.00750; 35.59389
Palestine grid205/268
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
20[3][4]
Current LocalitiesAyyelet ha-Shahar[5] and Mishmar ha-Yarden[5]

Yarda was a Palestinian hamlet in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1949 Palestine war. It was located 10.5 km northeast of Safad. The area is now part of Israel.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 86
  2. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 84
  3. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, pp. 09, 11
  4. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 69
  5. ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p. 504

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ياردا Arabic חורבת ירדה HE Yarda, Safad ID یاردا، صفد UR

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