Al-Mas'udiyya

Al-Mas'udiyya
المسعوديّة/صميل
Summayl
Remains of Al-Mas'udiyya, in 2005.
Remains of Al-Mas'udiyya, in 2005.
Etymology: Summeil, personal name, from "hard", or "withered"[1]
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Mas'udiyya (click the buttons)
Al-Mas'udiyya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Mas'udiyya
Al-Mas'udiyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°05′07″N 34°46′54″E / 32.08528°N 34.78167°E / 32.08528; 34.78167
Palestine grid129/165
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictJaffa
Date of depopulationDecember 25, 1947[4]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total850[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationFear of being caught up in the fighting
Current Localitiespart of Tel Aviv[5]

Al-Mas'udiyya (also known as Summayl), was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on December 25, 1947. It was located 5 km northeast of Jaffa, situated 1.5 km south of the al-'Awja River. The village used to be known as Summayl.

History

The village shown within the Jaffa municipality (thick red line) on a 1930 Survey of Palestine map; click image to view full map

In 1799, it was noted as an unnamed village on the map that Pierre Jacotin compiled that year.[6]

An Ottoman village list from about 1870 showed that Samwil had 23 houses and a population of 62, though the population count included men, only. It was noted as a Bedouin camp, 4,5 km north of Jaffa centre, and 1 km from the sea.[7][8]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Summeil as an ordinary adobe village,[9] which had a large well, and a cave.[10]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Mas'udiyeh had a population of 443; 437 Muslims and 6 Christians,[11] (where the Christians all belonged to the Templar community),[12] increasing in the 1931 census to 658; 654 Muslim and 4 Christians, in a total of 127 houses.[13]

On 20 December 1942, Al-Mas'udiyya was annexed into Tel Aviv as part of a municipal border expansion.[14]

In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 850; 830 Muslims and 20 Christians.[2][3]

Al-Mas'udiyya had an elementary school founded in 1931, and in 1945 it had 31 students.[5]

1948, aftermath

In 1992, the village site was described: "The area is part of Tel Aviv. All that remains of the village is one deserted house that belonged to Muhammad Baydas. Cactuses, castor-oil (ricinus) plants, and palm and cypress trees further mark the site. Nearby is the al-Mas'udiyya (or Summayl) bridge – an arched, steel structure."[5]

References

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 219
  2. ^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 27
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 52
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #205. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  5. ^ a b c Khalidi, 1992, p. 249
  6. ^ Karmon, 1960, p. 161 Archived 2017-12-01 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Socin, 1879, p. 160
  8. ^ Hartmann, 1883, p. 137 also noted 23 houses
  9. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 254
  10. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 275
  11. ^ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jaffa, p. 20
  12. ^ Barron, 1923, Table XIV, p. 46
  13. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 14
  14. ^ "⁨תליאביב גדלה־ ב6300 דונם ⁩ | ⁨הארץ⁩ | 28 דצמבר 1942 | אוסף העיתונות | הספרייה הלאומית".

Bibliography

  • Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
  • Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
  • Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Centre. Archived from the original on 2018-12-08. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
  • Hartmann, M. (1883). "Die Ortschaftenliste des Liwa Jerusalem in dem türkischen Staatskalender für Syrien auf das Jahr 1288 der Flucht (1871)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 6: 102–149.
  • Karmon, Y. (1960). "An Analysis of Jacotin's Map of Palestine" (PDF). Israel Exploration Journal. 10 (3, 4): 155–173, 244–253. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
  • Khalidi, W. (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
  • Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
  • Morris, B. (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6. (pp. 91, 126, 128, 384)
  • Palmer, E.H. (1881). 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. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.

External links

  • Welcome To al-Mas'udiyya
  • al-Mas'udiyya (Summayl), Zochrot
  • Survey of Western Palestine, Map 13: IAA, Wikimedia commons
  • A Mosque Once Stood Here, Meron Rapoport Sep 16, 2005, Haaretz
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