Tabsur

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Tabsur (Arabic: تبصر‎‎), also Khirbat 'Azzun (Arabic: خربة عزون‎‎), was a Palestinian village located 19 kilometres southwest of Tulkarm. In 1931, the village had 218 houses and an elementary school for boys.[3] It was depopulated before the outbreak of 1948 Arab-Israeli war.[4]

History

Tabsur was established before the middle of the nineteenth-century on an archaeological site.[5] The village contained archaeological remains, including the foundations of a building, a well, fragments of mosaic pavement, and tombs.[3]

In the late nineteenth century, Tabsur was described as a moderate-sized hamlet with a well to the north.[6] It was later classified as a hamlet by the Palestine Index Gazetteer.[5]

British Mandate era

During the British Mandate an elementary school for boys was established in the village. The village also had a few shops.[3]

In the 1922 census of Palestine there were 709 villagers; 700 Muslims and 9 Christians,[7] (where the Christians were all Orthodox,[8]) increasing in 1931 census to 994; 980 Muslims and 14 Christians, in 218 houses.[9]

In 1944/45 a total of 1,602 dunums was allocated to cereals, while 24 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.[10][11][12] 29 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) area.[13]

1948, aftermath

The Arabs of Tabsur were ordered to leave by the Haganah on 3 April 1948 as part of its policy of evacuating Arab villages on the coastal plain.[14] The villagers left on 16 April 1948.[14]

Ra'anana was established south of Tabsur in 1921. Now a city, some of its suburbs have expanded into land that once belonged to the village. Batzra, founded in 1946 on village land, lies to the north.[3]

In 1992, the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi wrote: "The village has been completely covered with Israeli citrus orchards, making it difficult to distinguish from the surrounding lands. Citrus and cypress trees grow on the village land."[3]

The estimated number of Palestinian refugees from Tabsur in 1998 was 2,406.[4]

See also

References

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  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 176
  2. ↑ Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #192. Also gives cause of depopulation
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Khalidi, 1992, p. 562
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  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Khalidi, 1992, p. 561
  6. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 135. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 561
  7. ↑ Listed under the Azzun-name. Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Tulkarem, p. 28
  8. ↑ Listed under the Azzun-name. Barron, 1923, Table V, p. 48
  9. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 53
  10. ↑ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 21
  11. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 76
  12. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 127
  13. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 177
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Morris, 2004, p.245
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