Al-Shawka al-Tahta
Al-Shawka al-Tahta
الشوكة التحتا | |
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1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Shawka al-Tahta (click the buttons) | |
Al-Shawka al-Tahta Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°14′19″N 35°38′12″E / 33.23861°N 35.63667°E | |
| Palestine grid | 209/293 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | May 14, 1948 |
| Area | |
• Total | 2,132 dunams (2.132 km2; 0.823 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 200 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
Al-Shawka al-Tahta was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 14, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 31.5 km northeast of Safad.