Taytaba
Taytaba
طيطبا Teitaba | |
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| Etymology: "Watchtower" | |
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Taytaba (click the buttons) | |
Taytaba Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°00′48″N 35°28′35″E / 33.01333°N 35.47639°E | |
| Palestine grid | 194/268 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | May 1948 |
| Area | |
• Total | 8,453 dunams (8.453 km2; 3.264 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 530 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
| Current Localities | None |
Taytaba (Arabic: طيطبا, also spelled Teitaba) was a Palestinian-Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict, located 5 kilometers north of Safad. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine in May 1948 under Operation Hiram. In 1945 it had a population of 530 and a total area of 8,453 dunams, 99.8% of which was Arab-owned.
It was situated in a rocky area located along the crest of a basaltic hill that overlooks Wadi Taytaba, a tributary of Wadi Waqqas, to the southeast. It was connected to a highway leading to Safad via a secondary road and connected to many of the surrounding villages through secondary roads as well.