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Palestinian cities, towns and villages

 

CTV - from Ya'bad to Zur Moshe

Cities, towns and villages
 

Map Key:
- Name
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Popular Map coordinates (Carta, etc)
- Longitude,   Latitude
- District, location in relation to nearby landmark
- Population and category
- Details as available

Ya`bad

166,  205

35,10    32,27

15 km W of Jenin

Arab city, Pop.: 5,000

Yabrud

173,154

35,14    31,59

9 km NE of Ramallah

Arab village

Yafa

176, 232

35,16    32,41

1 km SW of Nazareth

Arab city (also known as Yafit en Nasra) Pop.: 6,000

Yagur

157,238

35,4     32,44

Haifa Bay

Kibbutz founded 1922, Pop.: 1,300

Yajur

146,234

34,57    32,42

Haifa District

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948.

Yalu

153,138

35,1    31,50

Ramla District

Arab village destroyed along with Emmuas ('Imwas) and Beit Nuba in 1967 by Israel which planted a forest atop of the lands called Canada Park. Located near the Latrun Salient, overlooking the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway, west of Jerusalem.

Yamma

153,197

35,1    32,22

6 km N of Tulkarm

Arab city, Pop.: 900

Yanuah

173,265

35,14     32,59

4 km SW of Ma`alot

Arab village. Pop.: 1,500

Yanmun

171,210

35,13     32,29

7 km NW of Jenin

Arab city, Pop.: 4,600

Yanun

183,172

35,20   32,9

12 km SE of Nablus

Druze village, Pop.: 1,500

Yaquq

196, 254

35,29    32,53

Tiberias District

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948.

Yarqona

140,172

34,53    32,9

4 km S of Kefar Sava

Moshav founded 1932

Yasid

176, 189

35,16    32,18

8 km N of Nablus

Arab village, Pop.: 800

Yasuf

172,168

35,13    32,7

12 km S of Nablus

Arab village, Pop.: 500

Yasur

128,128

34,46    31,45

Gaza District

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948. (Also Yazur)

Pop.: 1922-1,284; 1944-4,030

Yatma

175,168

35,15    32,7

14 km S of Nablus

Arab village, Pop.: 700

Yatta

158,94

35,5     31,27

10 km S of Hebron

Arab city, Pop.: 21,000

Yazur, (al)

132,159

34,48   32,2

Jaffa District

Arab village captured and destroyed by Haganah April 29, 1948.

Yedideya

140,194

34,53     32,21

8 km S of Hadera

Kibbutz founded 1935

Yehud

139,159

34,53    32,2

15 km E of Tel Aviv

Zionist town founded 1882; (Near former Arab village of Yehudiya, destroyed in 1948. Arab pop.: of Yehudiya in 1922-2,437; 1944-5,650.

Yibla

195,221

35,28    32,35

Beisan District

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948.

Yibna

128, 141

34,46   31,52

Ramla District

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948.

Yirka

170,262

35,12    32,57

Galilee

Druze village, Pop.: 5,200

Zab'a

203,218

35,33     32,34

Beisan District

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948.

Zababida

135,184

34,50    32,15

10 km N of Herliyya

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948. A Zionist Kibbutz, Yaqum, was created there in 1947 and now occupies the land.

Zababida, (ez)

180,199

35,19    32,24

8 km SE of Jenin

Arab village, Pop.: 1,650

Zahiriyya at-Tahta

198,262

35,30     32,57

Safad District

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948.

Zahiriyya al-Fawqa

199,261

35,31    32,57

Safad District

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948.

Zakariyya

146,122

34,57    31,42

Hebron District

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948.

Zalafa

167,217

35,10     32,33

18 km NE of Hadera

Arab village, Pop.: 1,200

Zanghariyya

205,261

35,34     32,57

Safad District

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948. Also known as Zahlaq.

Zarin

180, 218

35,19    32,34

6 km SE of `Afula

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948. Resettled by Zionist soldiers and named Yizre`el (after biblical name Jezreel), a kibbutz in 1948. Originally, small mud-hut village of about 300. Villagers were mostly migrants from nearby hill country. Most of the land was owned by members of the Abdul Hadis, a large landowning family and one of the district's largest landowners.

Zarnuga

134,144

34,50    31,54

Ramla District, near Rehovot

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948. Resettled in 1949by Zionists and merged as a suburb of Rehovot. (Also Zarnuka, Zarnuqa)

Pop.: 1922-967; 1944-2,380.

Zarra'a, (ez)

202,202

35,33    32,25

Beisan District

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948.

Zarzir

171,237

35,13    32,44

9 km NW of Nazareth

Bedouin village

Za`tara

174,120

35,15    31,41

3 km SE of Beit Sahur

Bedouin village, Pop.: 1,300

Zawata

171,183

35,13     32,15

5 km NW of Nablus

Arab village, Pop.: 600

Zawiya

154,167

35,2    32,6

11 km E of Jaffa

Arab village, Pop.: 1,300

Zawiya, (ez)

172,198

35,13    32,23

10 km SW of Jenin

Arab village

Zawiya, (ez) (Safad)

205,284

35,34   33,10

Safad District

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948.

Zeita

155,199

35,3    32,24

3 km N of Tulkarm

Arab village, Pop.: 1,000

Zeita

167,171

35,10    32,9

12 km SW of Nablus

Arab village, Pop.: 600

Zeita (Hebron)

135,115

34,50    31,38

Hebron District

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948.

Zib, (ez)

161,273

35,6    33,4

Acre District

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948.

Zibda

162,206

35,7     32,27

16 km W of Jenin

Arab village

Zikrin

139,118

34,53    31,40

Hebron District

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948.

Ziqron Ya`aqov

145,220

34,56    32,35

8 km N of Hadera

Zionist settlement founded 1882

Zir'in

182,218

35,20     32,34

Jenin District

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948.

Zofit

142,178

34,55   32,12

2 km N of Kefar Sava

Moshav founded 1933

Zuba

161,132

35,6     31,47

6 km W of Jerusalem

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948, resettled by Zionists as Kibbutz Zova

Zububa

171,216

35,13     32,33

4 km SE of Megiddo

Arab village, Pop.: 650

Zuq al-Fawqani

205,291

35,34     33,13

Safad District

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948.

Zuq at-Tihtani

288,204

35,87     32,26

Safad District

Arab village destroyed by Israel in 1948.

Zur Moshe

142,189

34,55.04     32,18

Jaffa District

Israeli Moshav, founded 1935 & named after Greek Zionist Moshe Kophinas; as a military training camp. Used as outpost by Zionist gangs to harass Jaffa's Arab population & to coordinate terrorist activities of the Haganah & Irgun.