Al-Qudayriyya

Summary

Al-Qudayriyya (Arabic: القديرية) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948, by the Haganah and the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Matate, a sub-operation of Operation Yiftach. It was located 6.5 km south of Safad, situated 1 km east of Wadi al-'Amud.

Al-Qudayriyya
القديرية
Qudeiriya, al-[1]
Village
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Qudayriyya (click the buttons)
Al-Qudayriyya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Qudayriyya
Al-Qudayriyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°54′17″N 35°30′33″E / 32.90472°N 35.50917°E / 32.90472; 35.50917
Palestine grid197/256
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay 4, 1948[1]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total390[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Secondary causeExpulsion by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesKahal[4]

History edit

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described nearby Kh. en Nueiriyeh[5] as having "heaps of drafted masonry on the top of terraced hill, with a rock-cut well and three rock-cut wine-presses".[6] According to Khalidi, these were remains of Roman and Byzantine eras.

British Mandate era edit

In the 1922 census of Palestine Qudairiyeh had a population of 194; all Muslim,[7] decreasing in the 1931 census to 72, still all Muslims, in a total of 14 houses.[8]

In the 1945 statistics the population was 390 Muslims,[2] with a total of 12,487 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[3] Of this, 2,029 dunums were used for cereals,[9] while 10,458 dunams were non-cultivable area.[10]

The village had a shrine for a local sage known as al-Shaykh al-Rumi and the Khirbat al-Nuwayriyya is located in the village.[4]

1948, aftermath edit

The village was depopulate during Operation Matateh, on May 4, 1948.[11][12][13]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #74. Also gives causes of depopulation.
  2. ^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 71 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p. 487
  5. ^ meaning "the ruin of the gypsies", according to Palmer, 1881, p. 129
  6. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 404
  7. ^ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Safad, p. 42
  8. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 109
  9. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 120
  10. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 170
  11. ^ Morris, 2004, p. 249
  12. ^ Morris, 2004, p. 445
  13. ^ Morris, 2004, p. 460

Bibliography edit

  • Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
  • Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
  • Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center. Archived from the original on 2018-12-08. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
  • Khalidi, W. (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
  • Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
  • Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
  • Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • al-Qawuqji, F. (1972): Memoirs of al-Qawuqji, Fauzi in Journal of Palestine Studies
    • "Memoirs, 1948, Part I" in 1, no. 4 (Sum. 72): 27-58., dpf-file, downloadable
    • "Memoirs, 1948, Part II" in 2, no. 1 (Aut. 72): 3-33., dpf-file, downloadable

External links edit

  • Welcome To al-Qudayriyya
  • al-Qudayriyya, Zochrot
  • al-Qudayriyya from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
  • Al-Qudayriyya, Dr. Khalil Rizk.
  • Survey of Western Palestine, Map 6: IAA, Wikimedia commons