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Al-Sindiyana
السنديانة
Sindiyana, Sindianeh
Village
Etymology: "the evergreen oak" [1] [2]
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Al-Sindiyana
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°33′31″N35°0′2″E / 32.55861°N 35.00056°E / 32.55861; 35.00056
Palestine grid 150/218
Geopolitical entity Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict Haifa
Date of depopulationMay 12–14, 1948 [3]
Area
 • Total
15,172  dunams (15.172 km2 or 5.858 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
1,250 [4]
Cause(s) of depopulationEthnic cleansing by Yishuv forces
Current Localities Aviel [5]

Al-Sindiyana (Arabic : السنديانة, Es Sindiyâna) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 12, 1948. It was located 29 km south of Haifa.

History

Antiquity

A Samaritan inscription on a stone lintel was discovered in Al-Sindiyana, featuring 12 lines of Samaritan script, referencing the initial section of the Shema prayer, following the Samaritan version of Deuteronomy 6:4-9, with notable variations from the Masoretic text. [6]

The stone, measuring 25 cm in height and 40 cm in width, was found inserted into a wall above the entrance of a modern house in Al-Sindiyana. The inscription, written in dots-separated words, includes a mention of the city's name "Geva" in Jewish script. The inscription concludes with lines suggesting a possible date, mentioning the "reign of Ishmael" (reference to Arab rule), potentially dating the text to shortly after the Muslim conquest in the seventh century AD. [6]

Ottoman era

On 16 March 1799, during the Ottoman era, Napoleon had a battle here just north of the village. [7]

In 1859, the population was estimated to be 300, who cultivated 22 feddans of land. [8]

Victor Guérin visited the village in 1863. Transcribing its name as Sendianeh, he notes there are 400 inhabitants and that its name must derive from the Arabic word sendian, meaning "evergreen oak", as these abound on the hills flanking the village. [9]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Sindianeh as a "village of moderate size on high ground, with a spring below it, and a cave; it was here that the tunnel of the Cæsarea aqueduct is said to have broken into by women digging for clay". [8]

A population list from about 1887 showed that Al-Sindiyana had about 520 inhabitants; all Muslims. [10]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Al Sendianeh had a population of 576; all Muslims, [11] increasing in the 1931 census to 923; 922 Muslim and 1 Jew, in a total of 217 houses. [12]

Al-Sindiyana had an elementary school for boys, which by 1942-1943 had 200 students. The village had several wells and springs. [13]

In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 1,250 Muslims, [4] with a total of 15,172 dunams of land. [14] Of this, a total of 8,177 dunums of land was allocated to cereals; 225 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, [15] while 24 dunams were built-up (urban) land. [16]

Post 1948

In 1992 the village site was described: "The site is fenced in with barbed wire. Scattered piles of stones, the debris of destroyed houses, are visible among thorns, cactuses and fig, olive, and palm trees. The surrounding lands are used by Israelis as a grazing area." [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Khatib et al., 2003, p. 119.
  2. ↑ Quercus coccifera, according to Palmer, 1881, p. 153
  3. ↑ Morris, 2004, xviii, village #160
  4. 1 2 Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 15
  5. 1 2 Khalidi, 1992, p. 193.
  6. 1 2 "CLV. Es-Sindiane no. 7556", Volume 5/Part 2 Galilaea and Northern Regions: 6925-7818, De Gruyter, pp. 1689–1691, 2023-03-20, doi:10.1515/9783110715743-041, ISBN   978-3-11-071574-3 , retrieved 2024-02-07
  7. ↑ van de Velde, 1854, vol 1, p. 344
  8. 1 2 Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 43
  9. ↑ Guérin, 1875, p. 342.
  10. ↑ Schumacher, 1888, p. 179
  11. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Haifa, p.34
  12. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 96
  13. ↑ Khalidi, 1992, p. 192
  14. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 49
  15. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 92
  16. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 142

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