al-Nahr
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al-Nahr (), was a Palestinian village northeast of Acre. It was depopulated in May 1948 after a military assault carried out by the Carmeli Brigade as part of the Israel Defense Forces's Operation Ben-Ami. Immediately after the assault, the village of al-Nahr was razed.
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It is catalogued under topics including 1948 disestablishments in Mandatory Palestine, Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and District of Acre.
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Place details
- Locality
- מועצה אזורית מטה אשר
- Region
- מחוז הצפון
- Country
- ישראל
- Population
- 766
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- al-Nahr
- Settlement.native_name
- النهر
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.other_name
- an-Nahr
- Settlement.image_caption
- Skyline of al-Nahr, 1949
- Settlement.etymology
- In 1881, the place was named Kahweh, meaning "the coffee shop"
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.map_caption
- A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Nahr (click the buttons)
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 200
- Settlement.grid_name
- Palestine grid
- Settlement.grid_position
- 163/268
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Geopolitical entity
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Subdistrict
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Acre
- Settlement.established_title1
- Date of depopulation
- Settlement.established_date1
- 21 May 1948
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Mandatory Palestine
- Located in
- Acre Subdistrict
- Population
- 610
- Area
- 5.261
- Elevation
- 65
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- Commons category
- Al-Nahr
- native label
- النهر
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1948-05-21
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Ottoman era
- British Mandate era
- 1948 war
- Israeli period
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
al-Nahr (), was a Palestinian village northeast of Acre. It was depopulated in May 1948 after a military assault carried out by the Carmeli Brigade as part of the Israel Defense Forces's Operation Ben-Ami. Immediately after the assault, the village of al-Nahr was razed.
==History== The twin villages of al-Nahr and nearby al-Tall were both sites of ancient settlements atop the tel of Kabri. Recent excavations indicate habitation back to the sixth millennium BC.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “al-Nahr” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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