Fardisya
Fardisya was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the Tulkarm Subdistrict, 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) south of Tulkarm.
Fardisya
فرديسيا | |
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| Etymology: Paradise | |
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Fardisya (click the buttons) | |
Fardisya Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°16′41″N 35°00′47″E | |
| Palestine grid | 151/187 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Tulkarm |
| Date of depopulation | April 1, 1948 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,092 dunams (1.092 km2 or 270 acres) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 20 |
| Current Localities | Sha'ar Efraim |
It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 1, 1948, under Operation Coastal Clearing, and was mostly destroyed with the exception of a single deserted house.
Today the area where the village stood been subsumed into the Arab-Israeli town of Tayibe.
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