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Al-Shaykh Muwannis
الشيخ مونّس Sheikh Muwannis | |
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 The former home of the village sheikh, aka "The Green house", presently part of Tel Aviv University | |
| Etymology: "The Sheikh Muwannis"[1] | |
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  Al-Shaykh Muwannis Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°06′30″N 34°48′15″E / 32.10833°N 34.80417°E | |
| Palestine grid | 131/168 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Jaffa |
| Date of depopulation | March 30, 1948[4] |
| Area | |
• Total | 15,972 dunams (15.972 km2 or 6.167 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 1,930[2][3] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Secondary cause | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
| Current Localities | Tel Aviv |
Al-Shaykh Muwannis (Arabic: الشيخ مونّس), also Sheikh Munis, was a small Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine,[5] located approximately 8.5 kilometers from the center of Jaffa city in territory earmarked for Jewish statehood under the UN Partition Plan.[6] The village was abandoned in March 1948 due to the threats of Jewish militias, two months before the 1948 Arab–Israeli war. Today, Tel Aviv University lies on part of the village land.[5]
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 218
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 53
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 28
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #200. Also gives causes of depopulation.
- ^ a b Daniel Monterescu and Dan Rabinowitz (2007). Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities: Historical Narratives, Spatial Dynamics, Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in Palestinian-Israeli Towns. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 298. ISBN 978-0-7546-4732-4.
- ^ Benny Morris (Autumn 1991). "Response to Finkelstein and Masalha". Journal of Palestine Studies. 21 (1): 98–114. doi:10.1525/jps.1991.21.1.00p00682.