District of Tiberias - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The District of Tiberias was an administrative district, situated in the British Mandate of Palestine around the city of Tiberias. After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War

1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, known to Israelis as the War of Independence or War of Liberation The war commenced after the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine and the creation of an independent Israel at midnight on 14 May 1948 when, following a period of civil war, Arab armies invaded...

, the district disintegrated.

Depopulated settlements

Awlam

Awlam was a Palestinian village located south of Tiberias situated on the slopes of the westward Wadi Awlam.-History:Awlam is identified as Oulamma, an important town that existed during the Roman era of rule in Palestine...

al-Dalhamiyya

Al-Dalhamiyya

Al-Dalhamiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 15, 1948 under Operation Gideon. It was located 14 km south of Tiberias, situated on the north bank of the Yarmuk River, on the...

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 21, 1948. It was located 8 km north of Tiberias, nearby Wadi Rubadiyya....

Hadatha

Hadatha was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was abandoned during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948 under the orders of the Arab Higher Committee. It was located 12.5 km southwest of Tiberias....

al-Hamma

Al-Hamma, Tiberias

Al-Hamma is a depopulated Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias, 12 km southeast of Tiberias. Situated on a narrow strip of land in the Yarmouk valley, it was one of the stations on the Jezreel Valley railway, linking the Hejaz Railway to Haifa.-History:The Old Testament...

Hittin

Hittin was a Palestinian village, located approximately west of Tiberias. The site of the Battle of Hattin in 1187, in which Saladin conquered most of interior Palestine from the Crusaders, Hittin is a nationalist symbol for Arabs and Palestinians...

Kafr Sabt

Kafr Sabt was a Palestinian Arab village of nearly 500 situated on a sloping plain in the eastern Lower Galilee located southwest of Tiberias.-History:While Palestine was part of the Roman Empire, Kafr Sabt was known as Kafar Shabtay...

Lubya

Lubya was a Palestinian Arab town located ten kilometers west of Tiberias that was captured and destroyed by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War...

Ma'dhar

Ma'dhar was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948 by the Golani Brigade of Operation Gideon...

al-Majdal

Al-Majdal, Tiberias

Al-Majdal was a Palestinian Arab village located on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee , north of Tiberias and south of Khan Minyeh. It is identified with the site of the ancient town of Magdala, reputed to be the birthplace of Mary Magdalene...

al-Manara

Al-Manara

Al-Manara was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 1, 1948 by Jewish troops. It was located 5 km south of Tiberias. The Crusaders referred to al-Manara as Menan.In 1945 it had total population of...

al-Manshiyya

Al-Manshiyya, Tiberias

Al-Manshiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 3, 1948. It was located 11 kilometres south of Tiberias.-History:...

al-Mansura

Al-Mansura, Tiberias

Al-Mansura was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 10, 1948. It was located 16 kilometres northwest of Tiberias.-Bibliography:...

Nasir al-Din

Nasir ad-Din, Tiberias

Nasir ad-Dīn was a small Palestinian Arab village southwest of Tiberias, on the crest of a slope that overlooks the Sea of Galilee. The village had several springs to the east, south, and southeast. In a 1931 British census, 179 people lived there, decreasing to 90 in a 1945 census...

Nimrin

Nimrin was a Palestinian Arab town of 320 that was captured and depopulated by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.-History:Nimrin stood on the site of Kfar Nimra when Palestine was ruled by the Roman Empire...

al-Nuqayb

Al-Nuqayb

Al-Nuqayb was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 15, 1948. It was located 10 km east across the lake from Tiberias. bordering the Wadi al-Muzaffar and Wadi Samakh...

Samakh

Samakh, Tiberias

Samakh was a Palestinian Arab village located at the southern end of the Lake Tiberias in Palestine . It had a population of 3,320 Arab Muslims and Arab Christians in 1945...

al-Samakiyya

Al-Samakiyya

Al-Samakiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 4, 1948 under Operation Matat. It was located 11 km northeast of Tiberias, near the Wadi al-Wadabani....

al-Samra

Al-Samra

Al-Samra was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 21, 1948. It was located 10 km southeast of Tiberias....

al-Shajara

Al-Shajara

al-Shajara is a former Palestinian Arab village depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It was located 14 kilometers west of Tiberias on the main highway to Nazareth near the villages of Lubya and Hittin....

al-Tabigha

Tabgha

Tabgha is an area situated on the north-western shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel. It is the traditional site of the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes and the fourth resurrection appearance of Jesus in Christianity. Until 1948, it was the site of an Arab village.The...

al-'Ubaydiyya

Al-'Ubaydiyya

Al-'Ubaydiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 3, 1948. It was located 11 km south of Tiberias, situated close to the Jordan River...

al-Wa'ra al-Sawda', Khirbat Yaquq

Yaquq

Yaquq was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948...

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