Ghost Towns
Tarbikha
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💥 War & expulsion

Tarbikha

Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
1,000
Coordinates
33.083, 35.284
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Why it was abandoned

💥 War & expulsion

Detected automatically from the text: village in mandatory Palestine which has been depopulated during the 1948 war

History

Tarbikha, was a Palestinian Arab village. It was located 27 kilometres northeast of Acre in the British Mandate District of Acre that was captured and depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The inhabitants of this village were, similar to the inhabitants of Southern Lebanon, Shia Muslims.

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