al-Sanbariyya
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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Al-Sanbariyya
| native_name = السنبرية
| native_name_lang = ar
| settlement_type =
| etymology = Kh. es Sambarîyeh, the ruin of the
SambarîyehPalmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/28/mode/1up 28]
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| pushpin_mapsize = 200
| coordinates = {{coord|33|14|05|N|35|37|07|E|type:city_region:PS|display=inline,title}}
| grid_name = Palestine grid
| grid_position = 208/293
| subdivision_type = Geopolitical entity
| subdivision_name = Mandatory Palestine
| subdivision_type1 = Subdistrict
| subdivision_name1 = Safad
| established_title1 = Date of depopulation
| established_date1 = May, 1948Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PR16 xvi], village #4. Causes of depopulation given as "?"
| established_title2 = Repopulated dates
| population_as_of = 1945
| population_total = 130Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p11.jpg 11]
| blank_name_sec1 = Cause(s) of depopulation
| blank3_name_sec1 = Current Localities
| blank3_info_sec1 = Ma'yan Barukh and Dafna
}}
Al-Sanbariyya was a Palestinian village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948, by Palmach's First Battalion under Operation Yiftach. It was located 31.5 km northeast of Safad, near Wadi Hasibani.
History
North of the village, a column with an inscription mentioning the Roman Emperor Julian (331–363 CE) was found.Khalidi, 1992, p. 494
In 1875, Victor Guérin traveled in the region, and noted that "debris of a small village" ... "is referred to me as Kharbet Sembezieh".Guérin, 1880, p. [https://archive.org/details/descriptiongogr00gugoog/page/351/mode/1up 351]
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as "a few ruined Arab houses".Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/121/mode/1up 121]
=British Mandate era=
In the 1931 census of Palestine, during the British Mandate for Palestine, the village had a population of 83; 77 Muslims and 6 Christians, in a total of 20 houses.Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 110]
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In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 130 Muslims, with a total land area of 2,532 dunams.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Safad/Page-071.jpg 71] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604235830/http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Safad/Page-071.jpg |date=2011-06-04 }} Of this, 539 dunams were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 1,739 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Safad/Page-121.jpg 121] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926124115/http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Safad/Page-121.jpg |date=2018-09-26 }} while 6 dunams were classified as non-cultivable areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Safad/Page-171.jpg 171] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926124116/http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Safad/Page-171.jpg |date=2018-09-26 }}
=1948, aftermath=
A complaint to Mapam said that "...I spoke to a number of members from Ma'ayan Baruch and nearby kibbutzim and I got the impression that there exists the possibility that there is a desire to destroy the villages and [the Arabs'] houses so that it will be impossible for the Arabs to return to them. A week ago a representative of the JNF (possibly Yosef Nahmani) came to visit. He saw that in the village of al Sanbariya ...several houses were still standing, albeit without roofs. He told the secretariat of the kibbutz to destroy the houses immediately and he said openly that this will enable us to take the village's lands, because the Arabs won't be able to return there. I am sorry to say the kibbutz agreed immediately without thinking about what they were doing."Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA357 357]
References
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Bibliography
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- {{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, 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|last=Guérin|first=V.|authorlink=Victor Guérin|title=Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine|url=https://archive.org/details/descriptiongogr00gugoog|volume=3: Galilee, pt. 2|year=1880|publisher= L'Imprimerie Nationale|location=Paris|language=French}}
- {{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|access-date=2009-08-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181208215837/http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html|archive-date=2018-12-08|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|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C |first=B.|last=Morris |author-link=Benny Morris |year=2004 |title=The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited|isbn=978-0-521-00967-6 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}
- {{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
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20161025115103/http://www.palestineremembered.com/Safad/al-Sanbariyya/index.html Welcome To al-Sanbariyya]
- [https://www.zochrot.org/en/village/49342 al-Sanbariyya], Zochrot
- [http://www.villagesofpalestine.com/alSanbariyya.htm al-Sanbariyya], Villages of Palestine
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8365 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.02.jpg Wikimedia commons]
{{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War}}
Category:Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War