Suhmata
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Place details
- Locality
- מועצה אזורית מעלה יוסף
- Region
- מחוז הצפון
- Country
- ישראל
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Suhmata
- Settlement.native_name
- سحماتا
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.other_name
- Soukhmata Sahmatah, Samueth, Samahete
- Settlement.image_caption
- The village of Suhmata in the early 1950s, a few years after its depopulation in 1948
- Settlement.etymology
- possibly from "black"
- 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 Suhmata (click the buttons)
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 200
- Settlement.grid_name
- Palestine grid
- Settlement.grid_position
- 179/268
Key dates
- Dissolved
- 30 October 1948
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Mandatory Palestine
- Located in
- Acre Subdistrict
- Population
- +1130
- Area
- +17.056
- Elevation
- +600
- Image
- Suhmata 1949.jpg
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Article
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Ottoman era
- British Mandate era
- Israeli period
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
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Suhmata (), was a Palestinian village, located northeast of Acre. It was depopulated by the Golani Brigade during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
==History== Separated from the neighboring village of Tarshiha by a deep gorge, the ruins of a Byzantine era church lay within Suhmata's village lands. An underground water reservoir and a burial cave that apparently dates to the Roman period have been found at the village site. Suhmata had a Christian population at least until the Persian invasion of Palestine (A.D. 614–627) and presumably many people remained Christian for some time after that. What was earlier termed a Crusader-era castle constructed in the village, which was rebuilt by Daher al-Umar in the latter half of the 18th century, turned out to be the Byzantine church. Excavations in 1932 revealed an inscription in the church's mosaic floor that dates to 555 CE.