Farradiyya
Farradiyya
الفرّاضية Ferradheh, al-Faradhiyyah, Ferradieh | |
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General view of village Farradiyya | |
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Farradiyya (click the buttons) | |
Farradiyya Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°55′54″N 35°25′42″E / 32.93167°N 35.42833°E | |
| Palestine grid | 190/259 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | February 1949 |
| Area | |
• Total | 20.0 km2 (7.7 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 670 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Expulsion by Yishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Parod, Shefer |
Farradiyya (Arabic: الفرّاضية, romanized: al-Farrāḍiyyah) was a Palestinian Arab village of 670 located 8 kilometers (5.0 mi) southwest of Safad. In 1949, an Israeli kibbutz called Parod was built atop the ethnically cleansed village.
Farradiyya was situated on the southern slopes of Mount Zabud with an average elevation of 375 meters (1,230 ft) above sea level. The Safad-Nazareth highway (Route 866) passed it to the north. Its total land area was 19,747 dunams, of which 25 dunams were built-up areas and 5,365 dunams cultivable.