Suhmata

Suhmata (), was a Palestinian village, located northeast of Acre. It was depopulated by the Golani Brigade during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

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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
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: 30 October 1948

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Wikidata facts

Population: 1130
Area: 17.056
Elevation: 600
Image: Suhmata 1949.jpg

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Commons category: Suhmata
dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1948-10-30
native label: سحماتا

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Ottoman era
British Mandate era
Israeli period
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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.