Al-Sarafand
al-Sarafand
الصرفند Sarepta Yudee | |
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| Etymology: from a personal name | |
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Sarafand (click the buttons) | |
al-Sarafand Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°38′48″N 34°56′08″E / 32.64667°N 34.93556°E | |
| Palestine grid | 144/228 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Haifa |
| Date of depopulation | 16 July 1948 |
| Area | |
• Total | 5,409 dunams (5.409 km2; 2.088 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 290 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Secondary cause | Influence of nearby town's fall |
| Current Localities | Tzrufa |
Al-Sarafand (Arabic: الصرفند) was a Palestinian Arab village near the Mediterranean shore south of Haifa. In Ottoman tax records, it is shown that the village had a population of 61 inhabitants in 1596. According to a land and population survey by Sami Hadawi, al-Sarafand's population was 290 in 1945, entirely Arab.