Al-Manshiyya, Tiberias Explained

Al-Manshiyya
Native Name:المنشية
Native Name Lang:ar
Settlement Type:Village
Etymology:From personal name[1]
Pushpin Map:Mandatory Palestine
Pushpin Mapsize:200
Coordinates:32.6925°N 35.5581°W
Grid Name:Palestine grid
Grid Position:203/233
Subdivision Type:Geopolitical entity
Subdivision Name:Mandatory Palestine
Subdivision Type1:Subdistrict
Subdivision Name1:Tiberias
Established Title1:Date of depopulation
Established Date1:March 3, 1948
Established Title2:Repopulated dates
Unit Pref:dunam
Blank Name Sec1:Cause(s) of depopulation
Blank3 Name Sec1:Current Localities
Blank3 Info Sec1:Beit Zera[2]

Al-Manshiyya (Arabic: المنشية) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict, located 11 kilometres south of Tiberias. It was probably depopulated at the same time as neighbouring Al-'Ubaydiyya, in the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine.[3] Manshiyya was located 1 km south-west of Umm Junieh or Khirbat Umm Juni.

History

Ottoman period

In 1799, in the late Ottoman period, Um Junieh was noted as "ruins" on the map of Pierre Jacotin.[4] In 1875, Victor Guérin noted Um Junieh as a village.[5] In the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine in 1881 Umm Junieh was described as having 250 inhabitants, all Muslim.[6] They noted that it was possible that Umm Junieh was the place which Josephus called Union.[7]

In the 1880s the land of Khirbat Umm Juni and Al-Manshiyya was bought on behalf of the Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith. The Arab inhabitants continued to farm the land as tenant farmers.

A population list from about 1887 showed that Kiryet Umm Juny had about 330 Muslim inhabitants.[8]

Degania

In 1905-1907 the land was resold to the Jewish National Fund. What were to become Kibbutz Degania was established at Umm Juni, in part using existing Arab-made mud huts and for a while the Arab village and the Jewish one coexisted.

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, there were 79 Muslim residents in Khirbat Umm Juneh,[9] while no number is available for Al-Manshiyya.[10]

Post 1948

In 1992 the village site was described: "The site is covered with grasses and a few palm and eucalyptus trees; no traces of buildings remain. The surrounding lands are cultivated by Israelis."[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 136
  2. Khalidi, 1992, p. 533
  3. Khalidi, 1992, pp. 533-534
  4. Karmon, 1960, p. 167
  5. Guérin, 1880, p. 283
  6. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p.362. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 532
  7. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, 371
  8. Schumacher, 1888, p. 187
  9. Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Tiberias, p. 39
  10. Khalidi, 1992, p. 532

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