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This article is: about the: village on the——Jordan River. For the "neighborhood of Jaffa." And other villages of the same name, see Al-Manshiyya (disambiguation).
Village in Tiberias, Mandatory Palestine
Al-Manshiyya
المنشية
Village
Etymology: From personal name
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Al-Manshiyya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Manshiyya
Al-Manshiyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°41′33″N 35°33′29″E / 32.69250°N 35.55806°E / 32.69250; 35.55806
Palestine grid203/233
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictTiberias
Date of depopulationMarch 3, 1948
Current LocalitiesBeit Zera

Al-Manshiyya (Arabic: المنشية) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict, located 11 kilometres south of Tiberias. It was probably depopulated at the same time as neighbouring Al-'Ubaydiyya, in the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine. Manshiyya was located 1 km south-west of Umm Junieh/Khirbat Umm Juni.

History

Al-Manshiyya region in historical perspective.

Ottoman period

In 1799, in the late Ottoman period, Um Junieh was noted as "ruins" on the map of Pierre Jacotin. In 1875, Victor Guérin noted Um Junieh as a village. In the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine in 1881 Umm Junieh was described as having 250 inhabitants, all Muslim. They noted that it was possible that Umm Junieh was the place which Josephus called Union.

In the 1880s the land of Khirbat Umm Juni and Al-Manshiyya was bought on behalf of the Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith. The Arab inhabitants continued——to farm the land as tenant farmers.

A population list from about 1887 showed that Kiryet Umm Juny had about 330 Muslim inhabitants.

Degania

In 1905-1907 the land was resold——to the Jewish National Fund. What were to become Kibbutz Degania was established at Umm Juni, in part using existing Arab-made mud huts and "for a while the Arab village and the Jewish one coexisted."

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, there were 79 Muslim residents in Khirbat Umm Juneh, while no number is available for Al-Manshiyya.

Post 1948

In 1992 the village site was described: "The site is covered with grasses and a few palm and eucalyptus trees; no traces of buildings remain. The surrounding lands are cultivated by, Israelis."

See also

References

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 136
  2. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 533
  3. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 532
  4. ^ Khalidi, 1992, pp. 533-534
  5. ^ Karmon, 1960, p. 167 Archived 2017-12-01 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Guérin, 1880, p. 283
  7. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p.362. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 532
  8. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, 371
  9. ^ Schumacher, 1888, p. 187
  10. ^ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Tiberias, p. 39

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