Al-Mas'udiyya

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Al-Mas'udiyya المسعوديّة/صميل Summayl
Remains of Al-Mas'udiyya, in 2005.
Etymology: Summeil, personal name, from "hard", or "withered"[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Mas'udiyya (click the buttons)
Al-Mas'udiyya Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°05′07″N 34°46′54″E / 32.08528°N 34.78167°E / 32.08528; 34.78167
Palestine grid	129/165
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Jaffa
Date of depopulation	December 25, 1947[4]
Population  (1945)
• Total	850[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Fear of being caught up in the fighting
Current Localities	part of Tel Aviv[5]

Al-Mas'udiyya (also known as Summayl), was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on December 25, 1947. It was located 5 km northeast of Jaffa, situated 1.5 km south of the al-'Awja River. The village used to be known as Summayl.

History[edit]

In 1799, it was noted as an unnamed village on the map that Pierre Jacotin compiled that year.^[6]

An Ottoman village list from about 1870 showed that Samwil had 23 houses and a population of 62, though the population count included men, only. It was noted as a Bedouin camp, 4,5 km north of Jaffa centre, and 1 km from the sea.^[7][8]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Summeil as an ordinary adobe village,^[9] which had a large well, and a cave.^[10]

British Mandate era[edit]

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Mas'udiyeh had a population of 443; 437 Muslims and 6 Christians,^[11] (where the Christians all belonged to the Templar community),^[12] increasing in the 1931 census to 658; 654 Muslim and 4 Christians, in a total of 127 houses.^[13]

On 20 December 1942, Al-Mas'udiyya was annexed into Tel Aviv as part of a municipal border expansion.^[14]

In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 850; 830 Muslims and 20 Christians.^[2][3]

Al-Mas'udiyya had an elementary school founded in 1931, and in 1945 it had 31 students.^[5]

1948, aftermath[edit]

In 1992, the village site was described: "The area is part of Tel Aviv. All that remains of the village is one deserted house that belonged to Muhammad Baydas. Cactuses, castor-oil (ricinus) plants, and palm and cypress trees further mark the site. Nearby is the al-Mas'udiyya (or Summayl) bridge – an arched, steel structure."^[5]

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External links[edit]

• Welcome To al-Mas'udiyya
• al-Mas'udiyya (Summayl), Zochrot
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 13: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• A Mosque Once Stood Here, Meron Rapoport Sep 16, 2005, Haaretz