Al-Buwayziyya
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Al-Buwayziyya (Arabic: البويزية والميس) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 11, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 22 km northeast of Safad.
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Al-Buwayziyya
البويزية والميس Buweiziya,[1] | |
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Village | |
Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
Coordinates: 33°09′32″N 35°34′13″E | |
Palestine grid | 203/284 |
Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
Subdistrict | Safad |
Date of depopulation | May 11, 1948[1] |
Area | |
• Total | 14,620 dunams (14.62 km2 or 5.64 sq mi) |
Population (1945) | |
• Total | 510[3][2] |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
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In the 1944/45 statistics it had a population 510 Muslims.[3][2] The village had elementary school for boys which was founded in 1937.