Zawiya, Safad
Al-Zawiya
الزوِية | |
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1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Zawiya, Safad (click the buttons) | |
Al-Zawiya Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 33°09′19″N 35°35′50″E / 33.15528°N 35.59722°E | |
| Palestine grid | 206/284 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
| Date of depopulation | May 24, 1948 |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,958 dunams (3.958 km2; 1.528 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 760 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Secondary cause | Expulsion by Yishuv forces |
| Current Localities | Neot Mordechai |
Al-Zawiya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 24, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 23 km northeast of Safad.