Suruh

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FieldValue
nameSuruh
native_nameسروح
native_name_langar
settlement_typeVillage
etymologypersonal name, possibly from "to flow freely" (water) or "to pasture at large" (cattle)
pushpin_mapMandatory Palestine
pushpin_mapsize200
coordinates
grid_namePalestine grid
grid_position177/276
subdivision_typeGeopolitical entity
subdivision_nameMandatory Palestine
subdivision_type1Subdistrict
subdivision_name1Acre
established_title1Date of depopulation
established_date1early November 1948
established_title2Repopulated dates
unit_prefdunam
area_total_dunam18,563
population_as_of1945
population_total1,000
blank_name_sec1Cause(s) of depopulation
blank_info_sec1Expulsion by Yishuv forces
blank3_name_sec1Current Localities
blank3_info_sec1Shomera, Even Menachem, Kefar Rosenwald, Shtula
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| name = Suruh | native_name = سروح | native_name_lang = ar | settlement_type = Village | etymology = personal name, possibly from "to flow freely" (water) or "to pasture at large" (cattle) | pushpin_map = Mandatory Palestine | pushpin_map_caption = Location within Mandatory Palestine | image_map = | map_caption = A series of historical maps of the area around Suruh (click the buttons) | pushpin_mapsize = 200 | coordinates = | grid_name = Palestine grid | grid_position = 177/276 | subdivision_type = Geopolitical entity | subdivision_name = Mandatory Palestine | subdivision_type1 = Subdistrict | subdivision_name1 = Acre | established_title1 = Date of depopulation | established_date1 = early November 1948 | established_title2 = Repopulated dates | unit_pref = dunam | area_total_dunam = 18,563 | population_as_of = 1945 | population_total = 1,000 | blank_name_sec1 = Cause(s) of depopulation | blank_info_sec1 = Expulsion by Yishuv forces | blank3_name_sec1 = Current Localities | blank3_info_sec1 = Shomera, Even Menachem, Kefar Rosenwald, Shtula Suruh (), was a Palestinian Arab hamlet, located 28.5 km northeast of Acre. It became depopulated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

History

Suruh contained two khirbats ("sites of ruins") with a variety of ancient artifacts, including cisterns, and rock-hewn tombs.

Ottoman era

An 1875 visitor, Victor Guérin, describes it as a ruin, which he called Khurbet Seroueh. Guérin noted; "These ruins cover the summit of the hill. At the highest point we observed the remains of a very ancient square tower, measuring fourteen paces on each side, the lower courses consisting of very large blocks, roughly squared and without cement. The interior is full of similar blocks, piled up in confusion, in the midst of which terebinths and pomegranates have taken root. Near this tower a few old houses served as an asylum to four families of Metawileh. On the lintel of the door of one of these houses a square cross inscribed in a circle can still be traced. The terraces of another house are supported in the interior by arched arcades in good cut stone of Roman, or at least Byzantine, date. There are also the remains of numerous houses which have been destroyed, a dozen cisterns cut in the rock, a column lying on the ground, and the fragment of a sarcophagus."

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Suruh as "a small village, containing about ninety Moslems, situated on a ridge, with olives and arable land round; there are three rock-cut cisterns. The residents lived by agriculture and raising live-stock.

British Mandate era

In the 1945 statistics the population Tarbikha, Al-Nabi Rubin and Suruh together was 1000 Muslims, while 112 dunams were built-up (urban) land.

1948, and aftermath

During the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the inhabitants of Suruh, the neighbouring hamlet of Nabi Rubin and the main village of Tarbikha, were given expulsion orders by Israeli forces. A predominantly Sunni Muslim hamlet, Suruh and Nabi Rubin were satellite hamlets of Tarbikha, a largely Shi'ite village. Most of Suruh's inhabitants and those the neighbouring localities ended up leaving to Lebanon.

In 1992 the village site was described: "Only rubble, trees, cactuses, shrubs, and weeds are visible. Most of the site is used for grazing."

References

Bibliography

References

  1. Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/54/mode/1up 54]
  2. Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PR17 xvii], village #67. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  3. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p05.jpg 5]
  4. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Acre/Page-041.jpg 41]
  5. Khalidi, 1992, p. 32
  6. Khalidi, 1992, pp. 31-32
  7. Guerin, 1880, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr00gugoog#page/n141/mode/1up 123]- [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr00gugoog#page/n142/mode/2up 124]; as given in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/192/mode/1up 192]-193
  8. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/149/mode/1up 149]
  9. and they had a total of 18,563 [[dunam]]s of land. 619 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 3,204 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Acre/Page-081.jpg 81]
  10. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Acre/Page-131.jpg 131]
  11. Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA506 506]

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