Naghnaghiya (, ''Al-Naghnaghiyya'') was a Palestinian

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village, southeast of

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. It was depopulated before the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.Morris, 2004, p.
242
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Location

The village was on the north edge of a hill at the edge of a wadi bed, overlooking the Jezreel Valley and the

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hills to the north and northeast. It was the smallest of a group of three villages (known collectively as al-Ghubayyat) located together; the others were Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa and Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta. Next to al- Naghnaghiya was an artificial mound that bore the same name. Two kilometers to the southeast, on the highway to Jenin was Tall al-Mutasallim, identified with Megiddo.Khalidi, 1992, p. 179 Mishmar HaEmek region

History

In 1888, during Ottoman rule, an elementary school was built that was shared by the three al-Ghubayyat villages.

British Mandate era

In the British Mandate of Palestine period, in the

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''Al Naghnaghiyeh'' had a population of 272; all

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s, increasing in the 1931 census to 416, still all Muslims, in a total of 78 houses.Mills, 1932, p
95
/ref> In the 1945 statistics the population of Al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa, Al-Ghubayya al-Tahta and Naghnaghiya was 1,130, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p
13
/ref> and it had 12,139

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s of land according to an official land and population survey. 209 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 10,883 for cereals, while no data were given for built-up (urban) land. In addition to agriculture, residents practiced

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which formed was an important source of income for the town. In 1943, they owned 139 heads of

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, 6 water buffalos, 1090

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over a year old, 369

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over a year old, 20 camels, 31

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, 81 donkeys, 908 fowls, and 29 pigeons.

1948, and after

Before the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, on the night of the 12–13 April 1948, Naghnaghiya and the neighbouring village of al-Mansi were attacked by the Palmach, a

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ish militia. By 15 April, both villages had been depopulated, and they were then blown up by the Jewish militia forces in order to block the return of the villagers. According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, describing the village in 1992: "The remains of houses are scattered on the slope of one hill. The site, traversed by the Haifa-Megiddo highway and partly occupied by an Israeli soccer field, is difficult to identify."Khalidi, 1992, p. 180

References

Bibliography

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External links

Welcome to al-Naghnaghiyyaal-Naghnaghiyya
Zochrot *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8:
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* from Dr. Moslih Kanaaneh

from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center {{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War Arab villages depopulated prior to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War District of Haifa