Al-Qudayriyya Explained

Al-Qudayriyya
Native Name:القديرية
Native Name Lang:ar
Other Name:Qudeiriya, al-[1]
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Mandatory Palestine
Pushpin Mapsize:200
Coordinates:32.9047°N 35.5092°W
Grid Name:Palestine grid
Grid Position:197/256
Subdivision Type:Geopolitical entity
Subdivision Name:Mandatory Palestine
Subdivision Type1:Subdistrict
Subdivision Name1:Safad
Established Title1:Date of depopulation
Established Date1:May 4, 1948
Established Title2:Repopulated dates
Population As Of:1945
Population Total:390[2] [3]
Blank Name Sec1:Cause(s) of depopulation
Blank Info Sec1:Military assault by Yishuv forces
Blank1 Name Sec1:Secondary cause
Blank1 Info Sec1:Expulsion by Yishuv forces
Blank3 Name Sec1:Current Localities
Blank3 Info Sec1:Kahal[4]

Al-Qudayriyya (ar|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.

History

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

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

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

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Notes and References

  1. Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #74. Also gives causes of depopulation.
  2. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 10
  3. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 71
  4. 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

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