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Khirbat Sa'sa'

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{{Infobox settlement

| name = Khirbat Sa'sa'

| native_name = خربة سعْسع

| native_name_lang = ar

| settlement_type = Village

| etymology = Kh. Sảsả, the ruin of Sảsả Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/112/mode/1up 112]

| pushpin_map = Mandatory Palestine | pushpin_map_caption = Location within Mandatory Palestine | image_map = {{Historical map series|default=2|date1=1870s|date2=1940s|date3=modern|date4=1940s with modern overlay|width=225}} | map_caption = A series of historical maps of the area around {{PAGENAME}} (click the buttons)

| pushpin_mapsize = 200

| coordinates = {{coord|32|46|27|N|35|07|49|E|type:city_region:PS|display=inline,title}}

| grid_name = Palestine grid

| grid_position = 162/242

| subdivision_type = Geopolitical entity

| subdivision_name = Mandatory Palestine

| subdivision_type1 = Subdistrict

| subdivision_name1 = Haifa

| established_title1 = Date of depopulation

| established_date1 = April 28, 1948

| established_title2 = Repopulated dates

| population_as_of = 1945

| population_total = 130Khalidi, 1992, p. 189

| blank_name_sec1 = Cause(s) of depopulation

}}

Khirbat Sa'sa' was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 28, 1948. It was located 15 km east of Haifa.

History

The Romans referred to the village as Kefar Sasai.Khalidi, 1992, p. 190

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine found at Kh. Sasa: "caves and foundations".Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/318/mode/1up 318]

=British Mandate era=

In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, it was counted as a part of Shefa-'Amr suburbs, together with 9 other villages, and together they had a total of 1197 inhabitants, all Muslim, in 234 houses.Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 95]

In the 1945 statistics Sasa was again counted among Shefa-'Amr suburbs, and it was noted with a population of 130 Muslims.Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p15.jpg 15]Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Haifa/Page-049.jpg 49] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924150251/http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Haifa/Page-049.jpg |date=2015-09-24 }}Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Haifa/Page-092.jpg 92] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924151451/http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Haifa/Page-092.jpg |date=2015-09-24 }}Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Haifa/Page-142.jpg 142] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150602172103/http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Haifa/Page-142.jpg |date=2015-06-02 }}

=Post 1948=

In 1992 the village site was described: "Cactuses and fig trees can be found scattered about the site. There are a number of partially collapsed stone walls, one with a large arched opening. The surrounding lands are used as a grazing area."Khalidi, 1992, p. 190 Village ruins include building foundations, tombs, and cisterns.Khalidi, 1992, p. 190

References

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Bibliography

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  • {{cite book|title=Village Statistics, April, 1945|url=http://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/Hebrew/library/Pages/BookReader.aspx?pid=856390|author=Department of Statistics|year=1945|publisher=Government of Palestine}}
  • {{cite book|last1=Conder|first1=C.R.|author-link1=Claude Reignier Conder|last2=Kitchener|first2=H. H.|author-link2=Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp01conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology|location=London|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund|volume=1}}
  • {{cite book|title=Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine|url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html|first=S.|last=Hadawi|author-link=Sami Hadawi|year=1970|publisher=Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center|archive-date=2018-12-08|access-date=2009-08-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181208215837/http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html|url-status=dead}}
  • {{cite book|title=All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_By7AAAAIAAJ|first=W.|last=Khalidi|author-link=Walid Khalidi|year=1992|location=Washington D.C.|publisher=Institute for Palestine Studies|isbn=0-88728-224-5}}
  • {{cite book | editor = Mills, E. | title = Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas | url = https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas | publisher = Government of Palestine | location = Jerusalem | year = 1932 }}
  • {{cite book|last=Palmer|first=E. H.|author-link=Edward Henry Palmer|year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp00conduoft|title=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|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund}}

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External links

  • [http://www.palestineremembered.com/Haifa/Sa'sa',-Khirbat/ Welcome To Sa'sa', Khirbat]
  • [http://www.zochrot.org/en/village/49343 Khirbat Sa'sa'], Zochrot
  • Survey of Western Palestine, Map 5: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8368 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.05.jpg Wikimedia commons]

{{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War}}

Category:Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War

Category:District of Haifa