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Al-Sumayriyya
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Al-Sumayriyya (, Katasir in Canaanite times, Someleria during Crusader rule), was a Palestinian village located six kilometers north of Acre that was depopulated after it was captured by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The ruins of the village are today in the outskirts of the Israeli moshav of Regba.
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- Locality
- מועצה אזורית מטה אשר
- Region
- מחוז הצפון
- Country
- ישראל
- Population
- 1,096
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Mandatory Palestine
- Located in
- Acre Subdistrict
- Population
- 760
- Area
- 8.542
- Elevation
- 25
- Image
- Sumayriyya Aquifer.JPG
- Significant event
- 1948 Palestinian exodus
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- Al-Sumayriyya
- native label
- السُميريه
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1948-05-14
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- History
- Ottoman era
- British Mandate era
- 1948, and aftermath
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
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Al-Sumayriyya (, Katasir in Canaanite times, Someleria during Crusader rule), was a Palestinian village located six kilometers north of Acre that was depopulated after it was captured by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The ruins of the village are today in the outskirts of the Israeli moshav of Regba.
==History== thumb|left|al-Sumayriyya, 1948 thumb|left|Al-Sumayriyya's old cemetery, July 2008 Tall al-Sumayriyya contains carved stones, a mosaic floor, tombs, columns, and stone capitals. Khirbat Abu 'Ataba has an Islamic shrine and ceramic fragments.
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