Mansura, Syria

Mansura, (Arabic: ﻣﻨﺼﻮرة),[1] is a former Syrian village located in the Golan Heights.[2]

History

The German-American archaeologist Gottlieb Schumacher surveyed the site in the 1880s and described it as: "A large Circassian village, near el-Kuneitrah" and having 400 residents.[3]

In the late 1800s, the village was repeatedly attacked by Druze as a result of land disputes.[4]

In the 1930s, there was a dispute over land in Mansura between the leader of the al-Fadl tribe and three Lebanese.[5]

After Israel occupied the area in the Six-Day War, they began destroying Syrian villages in the Golan Heights.[6][7] Mansura was destroyed in 1967.[2] The village mosque was also destroyed by Israel.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ Murphy, Ray; Gannon, Declan (2008). "Changing the Landscape: Israel's Gross Violations of International Law in the Occupied Syrian Golan" (PDF). al-Marsad. p. 67. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
  2. ^ a b Kotef, H. (2020). The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine. Theory in Forms. Duke University Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-4780-1286-3. Retrieved 2024-09-01.: "Situated in the Golan Heights, Mansura is a Syrian village that was demolished in 1967."
  3. ^ Schumacher, Gottlieb (1888). The Jaulân: Surveyed for the German Society for the Exploration of the Holy Land. London: Richard Bentley and Son. p. 218. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
  4. ^ Hamed-Troyansky, V. (2024). Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-1-5036-3775-7. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
  5. ^ ‘Abbasi & Seltenreich 2007, pp. 39
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Sulimani & Kletter 2022, pp. 55–56
  8. ^ Sulimani & Kletter 2022, pp. 59

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.
  • ‘Abbasi, Mustafa; Seltenreich, Yair (2007). "A Leader on Both Sides of the Border: The Amir Fa'our al-Fa'our Between Syria and Mandatory Palestine". Holy Land Studies. 6 (1): 23–49. doi:10.3366/hls.2007.0013. ISSN 1474-9475.