Khushniyeh

Khushniyeh الخشنية
Village
View of Khushniyah before its destruction in 1967
Khushniyeh The Golan on the map of Syria; Khishniyah on the map of the Golan.
Coordinates: 32°59′56″N 35°48′40″E
Country	Syria
Syrian Governorate	Quneitra Governorate
Syrian District	Quneitra District
Syrian Subdistrict	al-Khisniyah
Destroyed	June 10, 1967
Population  (1967)
• Total	1,029[1][2]

Khushniyeh (Arabic: الخشنية) is a former Syrian town located in the Golan Heights.[3]

History

Archeological excavations have revealed remains from the Roman, Byzantine and Islamic periods.[4]

The German-American archaeologist Gottlieb Schumacher surveyed the village in the 1880s and described it as: "El-Khushniyeh —A large winter village on the Roman street west of er-Rafid, with scattered building stones. Most of the huts have fallen to pieces."[5]

The old part of town was built with basalt stones.[4] The residents worked with livestock and agriculture and Khushniyah was known for its vineyards and figs.[4] Eucalyptus trees was planted in the town to fight off malaria.[4][6] There were also several schools, a police station and a mosque built in 1956.[4]

After Israel occupied the area in the Six-Day War, they set about destroying Syrian villages in the Golan Heights.[7][8] Khushniyeh was destroyed in 1967.[1] The population before the war was 1029.[1]

Khushniyeh after destruction

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References

1. "al-Marsad" (PDF). p. 4. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
2. Kipnis, Yigal (2013). The Golan Heights: Political History, Settlement and Geography since 1949. London and New York: Routledge. p. 245. ISBN 978-1-136-74092-3.
3. "Golan Heights and vicinity : October 1994". The Library of Congress. 1994-01-01. Retrieved 2024-08-31. (Al Khushniyah shown as an abandoned/dismantled Syrian village)
4. "بلدة الخشنية". General Organization of Radio and TV - Syria (in Arabic). 2022-09-27. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
5. Schumacher, Gottlieb (1888). The Jaulân: Surveyed for the German Society for the Exploration of the Holy Land. London: Richard Bentley and Son. p. 194. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
6. "Treating the vector - Management of malaria - Higher Geography Revision". BBC Bitesize. Retrieved 2024-12-28.
7. Shai (2006). "The Fate of Abandoned Arab Villages in Israel, 1965-1969". History and Memory. 18 (2): 100–101. doi:10.2979/his.2006.18.2.86.
8. Sulimani & Kletter 2022, pp. 55–56

Bibliography

• Sulimani, Gideon; Kletter, Raz (2022). "Settler-Colonialism and the Diary of an Israeli Settler in the Golan Heights: The Notebooks of Izhaki Gal". Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies. 21 (1). Edinburgh University Press: 48–71. doi:10.3366/hlps.2022.0283. ISSN 2054-1988.