Biriyya
Sign in to saveBiriyya () was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 2, 1948, by The Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located northeast of Safad. Today the Israeli moshav of Birya includes the village site.
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It is catalogued under topics including Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and District of Safad.
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- Country
- Mandatory Palestine
- Population
- 240
- Elevation
- 955
- Significant event
- 1948 Palestinian exodus
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Biriyya () was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 2, 1948, by The Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located northeast of Safad. Today the Israeli moshav of Birya includes the village site.
==History== The village was on a hill 1.5 kilometres northeast of Safad. It is believed to have been built on the site of the Roman village of Beral or Bin, which was later also a Jewish town. Ishtori Haparchi, however, thought the village to have been the Beri of rabbinic literature.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Biriyya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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