Burayka
Burayka
بريكة Bureika, Ibraikeh | |
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Village | |
| Etymology: The little pool | |
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Burayka (click the buttons) | |
Burayka Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°33′29″N 34°58′32″E / 32.55806°N 34.97556°E | |
| Palestine grid | 148/213 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Haifa |
| Date of depopulation | May 5, 1948 |
| Area | |
• Total | 11,434 dunams (11.434 km2; 4.415 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 290 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
Burayka was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 5, 1948. It was located 29 km south of Haifa.