Burayka
Burayka was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 5, 1948. It was located 29 km south of Haifa.
Burayka
بريكة Bureika, Ibraikeh | |
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Village | |
| Etymology: The little pool | |
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Burayka (click the buttons) | |
Burayka Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°33′29″N 34°58′32″E | |
| Palestine grid | 148/213 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Haifa |
| Date of depopulation | May 5, 1948 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 11,434 dunams (11.434 km2 or 4.415 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 290 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
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