Ubeidiya, Tiberias
Al-'Ubaydiyya
العبيدية | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Remains of agristmill | |
| Etymology: From personal name[1] | |
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  Al-'Ubaydiyya Location withinMandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates:32°41′21″N35°33′42″E/ 32.68917°N 35.56167°E | |
| Palestine grid | 202/232 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Tiberias |
| Date of depopulation | March 5, 1948[4] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5,173dunams(5.173 km2or 1.997 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 870[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
Al-'Ubaydiyya(Arabic:العبيدية) was aPalestinianArabvillage in theTiberias Subdistrict.It was depopulated during the1948 Arab-Israeli Waron March 3, 1948. It was located 11 km south ofTiberias,situated close to theJordan River.
Today the site is a desolate hill namedTel Ubeidiya.
History
[edit]Ottoman period
[edit]It was mentioned in theOttomandefterfor the year 1555-6, asMezraaland, (that is, cultivated land), located in theNahiyaofTabariyyaof theLiwaofSafad.The land was designated asSahiland, that is, land belonging to theSultan.[5]Pierre Jacotincalled the villageAbadiehon his map from 1799.[6]
In 1838 Robinson'sBiblical Researches in Palestinenoted it as aMuslimvillage,el-'Öbeidiyeh,in the Tiberias District,[7]located south oflake Tiberias.[8]
In 1881, thePEF'sSurvey of Western PalestinedescribedEl Abeidiyeh:"Stone and mud houses, built on a round tell, close to the Jordan river. It contains about 200 Moslems, and the plain is cultivated. There are several mills in the neighbourhood. There are a few small palms, but not many trees round the village."[9]The PEF wrote that the name comes from Arabic word "Abeed",meaning slave.[10]
A population list from about 1887 showedal Abediyehto have about 310 inhabitants; all Muslims.[11]
Al-'Ubaydiyya had an elementary school which was founded by the Ottomans.[12]
British Mandate
[edit]At the time of the1922 census of Palestineconducted by theBritish Mandate authorities,Al-'Ubaydiyya had a population of 336 Muslims,[13]increasing in the1931 censusto 625 Muslims, in 137 houses.[14]
In1944/1945,the village had a population of 870 Muslims,[2]with a total of 5,173 dunams of land.[3]Of this, Arabs used 3 dunams for citrus and bananas, 1,014 dunams were irrigated or used for orchards, 1,349 were used forcereals,[15]while 24 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) land.[16]
1948, aftermath
[edit]The village became depopulated on March 5, 1948.[4][17][18][19]
In 1988, a book about the village was published in Jordan.[20]
In 1992 the village site was described: "The remaining section of the walls of the canal (that provided themillwith water) is the most prominent indication of the former existence of the village. Ruins of houses, piles of stones, the bases of walls, terraces, and date palms can be seen on the site. The lands around the site are cultivated mainly in cotton by the Israelis. "[21]
See also
[edit]- Ubeidiya,prehistoric site near the former village
- Al-Ubaid (disambiguation)for Arabic root of the village name
References
[edit]- ^Palmer, 1881, p.121
- ^abDepartment of Statistics, 1945, p.12
- ^abcGovernment of Palestine, Department of Statistics.Village Statistics, April, 1945.Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.73
- ^abMorris, 2004, p.xvii,village #104. Also gives cause of depopulation
- ^Rohde, 1979, p. 101
- ^Karmon, 1960, p.167Archived2019-12-22 at theWayback Machine
- ^Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, Appendix 2, p.131
- ^Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, p.264
- ^Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p.360
- ^Claude Reignier Conder; Earl Horatio Herbert Kitchener Kitchener (1881).The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey.Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. p. 121.
from 'Obeid, "a little slave" (but perhaps connected with the Biblical name Obadiah).
- ^Schumacher, 1888, p.187
- ^Khalidi, 1992, p. 543
- ^Barron, 1923, Table XI, p.39
- ^Mills, 1932, p.85
- ^Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.Village Statistics, April, 1945.Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.123
- ^Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.Village Statistics, April, 1945.Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.173
- ^Morris, 2004, p.132,note #543, p.160
- ^Morris, 2004, p.186,note #176, p.275
- ^Morris, 2004, p.372,note #180, p.405
- ^Davis, 2011, p.283
- ^Khalidi, 1992, p. 544
Bibliography
[edit]- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923).Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922.Government of Palestine.
- Conder, C.R.;Kitchener, H. H.(1881).The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology.Vol. 1. London:Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Davis, Rochelle (2011).Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced.Stanford:Stanford University Press.ISBN978-0-8047-7313-3.
- 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 Center. Archived fromthe originalon 2018-12-08.Retrieved2009-08-18.
- Khalidi, W.(1992).All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948.Washington D.C.:Institute for Palestine Studies.ISBN0-88728-224-5.
- Khalifa, Ahmad Mohammad Ali. 1988. Qaryat al-‘Ubaydiyya [The Village of ‘Ubaydiyya]. Jordan: Mataba‘ al-Jazira.
- Karmon, Y. (1960)."An Analysis of Jacotin's Map of Palestine"(PDF).Israel Exploration Journal.10(3, 4): 155–173, 244–253. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2019-12-22.Retrieved2015-04-22.
- 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.ISBN978-0-521-00967-6.
- 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.
- Rhode, H.(1979).Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century.Columbia University.Archived fromthe originalon 2020-03-01.Retrieved2017-12-28.
- Robinson, E.;Smith, E.(1841).Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838.Vol. 3. Boston:Crocker & Brewster.
- Schumacher, G.(1888)."Population list of the Liwa of Akka".Quarterly Statement - Palestine Exploration Fund.20:169–191.
External links
[edit]- Welcome To al-'Ubaydiyya
- al-'Ubaydiyya,Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 6:IAA,Wikimedia commons
