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Al-Ruways
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Al-Ruways (), was a Palestinian Arab village on a rocky hill located southeast of Acre and south of the village of al-Damun. Its population in 1945 was 330. Al-Ruways was depopulated following its capture by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Al-Ruways
- Settlement.native_name
- الرويس
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.other_name
- al-Ruweis
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Former village
- Settlement.image_caption
- The cemetery of al-Ruways, 2010
- Settlement.etymology
- "The little hilltop", or "headland"
- 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-Ruways (click the buttons)
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 200
- Settlement.grid_name
- Palestine grid
- Settlement.grid_position
- 167/252
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Geopolitical entity
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Subdistrict
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Acre
- Settlement.established_title1
- Date of depopulation
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Mandatory Palestine
- Located in
- Acre Subdistrict
- Population
- 330
- Area
- 1.163
- Elevation
- 35
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- different from
- Ar Ru'ays
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- Al-Ruways
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Middle Ages
- Ottoman era
- British Mandate era
- Israeli rule
- See also
- Notes
- Bibliography
- External links
Al-Ruways (), was a Palestinian Arab village on a rocky hill located southeast of Acre and south of the village of al-Damun. Its population in 1945 was 330. Al-Ruways was depopulated following its capture by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
==History==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Al-Ruways” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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