Al-'Ulmaniyya
Al-'Ulmaniyya
العلمانية 'Ulmaniya, al | |
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Village | |
Al-'Ulmaniyya 1946 | |
| Etymology: Kh. ’Almânîyeh, the ruin of ’Almânîyeh | |
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Al-'Ulmaniyya (click the buttons) | |
Al-'Ulmaniyya Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°04′24″N 35°35′12″E / 33.07333°N 35.58667°E | |
| Palestine grid | 205/275 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | April 20, 1948 |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,169 dunams (1.169 km2; 0.451 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 260 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Al-'Ulmaniyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 20, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 14.5 km northeast of Safad.