MenuThe sources and the reference materials of our website are as the following:-
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Our references in order of primary sources concerning occupation
date, Israeli military operation, Israeli attacking Brigade, Population
ethnically cleansing, and Israeli settlements on town lands are from The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem, 1947-1949 by Benny
Morris (see Map 2 and Map #3),
Atlas of Palestine, The history of the Haganah,
The history of the war of independence (both in Arabic translation from the Institute
for Palestine Studies), Palestine Encyclopedia,
Biladuna
Filisteen by Mustafa Murad al-Dabagh, the great book
al-Nakba by
'Aref al-'Aref, and last
but not least All That Remains by Prof. Walid al-Khalidi.
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Our references in order of primary sources concerning elevation from the
sea, distance from district center, land ownership, population, and number
of houses are Biladuna
Filisteen by Mustafa Murad al-Dabagh,
Atlas of Palestine, Palestine
Encyclopedia, World
Gazetteer, and
PNA's Central Bureau of statistics.
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All Land Statistics such as land ownerships (for Palestinians and Jews),
citrus, olive, cultivable, and cereal land areas were all extracted from
Village Statistics of 1945.
Since book is extremely important (which was published by the Government of
Palestine for the Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry in 1946), we decide to
make available for the
general public. We also made available a soft copy of this book (plus 20
other important statistics about the Palestinians Villages) into one
spreadsheet, click here for
more details. This spreadsheet is a must read for all researchers and
concerned parties in this field.
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Village and Local Councils where extracted from
A Survey of Palestine. Since this
book was used extensively by the UN when it drafted the proposed Partition
Plan, we thought it is critical to share a copy of this important book with
the general public, click here for
details.
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Usurped lands that lay within the armistices line (mostly for W. Bank towns)
have been extract from
Atlas of Palestine.
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Usurped lands for Palestinian towns within Israel (for years until 1962 &
1972) were extract from from documents compiled from Badil Center based on
research done by Sabri Jiryis in "The Arabs in Israel" (1976) and Bakri Abu
Kishik in "Arab Lands and the Israeli Politics".
Click here to download both
tables.
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Acts of terror, level of destruction, est. of number refugees in 1998
was extracted from Atlas of
Palestine by Dr. Salman Abu Sitta (now can be sold via the site) and All That
Remains by Dr. Walid Khalidi.
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Olive areas have been extracted from Biladuna
Filisteen by Mustafa Murad al-Dabagh.
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Our primary references concerning population in 1596 and
in 19th century are based on the Ottomans tax record directly quoted
from All That
Remains by Dr. Walid Khalidi.
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Our primary references concerning archeological sites,
brief village remains, religious institutions, and up to date field research
about the status of each village plus confirming Israeli settlements on each
village lands are based on All
That Remains by Dr. Walid Khalidi,
The Return Journey By Dr. Salman Abu
Sitta (now can be bought via the site), and Biladuna
Filisteen by Mustafa Murad al-Dabagh.
- Our primary source regarding the Shrines/Maqams are All That Remains & The Return Journey, and by no means our research is complete. We are in the process of updating our data based from the Return Journey which has the most complete listing for all shrines and other religious sites.
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Look at the google earth application, historic Yibna is clearly seen as a hill in between the Ottoman rail track (now Lydda-Ashkelon rail track) to the right and the Via Maris (now Rehovot-Ashdod road) to the left.
You are right about the Ottomans invasion of Bosnia, Macedonia but what you do not know is that the natives of Bosnia chose Islam as their preferred religion. Alot of Christians from that region converted to Islam due to the discrimination-like treatments from European Christians. Hence it was not the Ottomans who settled in Bosnia and later driven out by Austrians, It was the Bosnians (Muslims) themselves.
"Ottomans invade Bosnia in 1453; Bosnian nobles refuse to support Catholic king, Stephen, and hand over fortresses to Mehmet, many converting to Islam at the same time, thus beginning the process which ultimately sees most Bosnians become Muslims"
Many thanks,
Glenn Bowman
Anthropology
University of Kent,
Canterbury U.K.
Special thanks to all the people who put effort and gave in from their time to make this webpage possible!! thank you very much! this webpage is an excellent source for outsiders like my family and I to learn more about their country espicially my young sibilings Nisreen, Aseel and Mohammad who never been in Abu fallah this is really a wndeful webpage to show them what me and my sister Sabrine always talk about as our most missed memory!! Thanks again ad I personally really appreciate it!!
Salam!
you forget faours/fowers??who are the largest family in sha'ab
before 1948.faour mohamed faour was the mokhtar, currently stiil the majlis and mokhtars for faours they outnumber all the the other families that you mentioned and this holds true before 48 and after and under occupation and out in refugee camps and all over too ???? is it omission?? or neglect??
please verify and correct.
sincerely ,one of the faours