Syrian towns and villages depopulated in the Arab-Israeli conflict
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Pre-1967 Syrian towns and villages on the Golan Heights before the Six-Day War
Six-Day War
The Six-Day War , also known as the June War, 1967 Arab-Israeli War, or Third Arab-Israeli War, was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967, by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt , Jordan, and Syria...

 and Yom Kippur War
Yom Kippur War
The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War or October War , also known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the Fourth Arab-Israeli War, was fought from October 6 to 25, 1973, between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria...

 comprised 312 inhabited areas, including 2 towns, 163 villages, and 108 farms. In 1966, the Syria
Syria
Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

n population of the Golan Heights was estimated at 147,613.
Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 seized about 70% of the Golan Heights in the closing stages of the Six-Day War. Many of these residents fled during the fighting, or were driven out by the Israeli army, and some were evacuated by the Syrian army. A cease-fire line was established and large parts of the region came under Israeli military control, including the town of Quneitra
Quneitra
Quneitra is the largely destroyed and abandoned capital of the Quneitra Governorate in south-western Syria. It is situated in a high valley in the Golan Heights at an elevation of 1,010 metres above sea level...

, about 139 villages and 61 farms. Of these, the Census of Population 1967 conducted by the Israeli Defence Forces listed only eight, including Quneitra. One of the remaining populated villages, Shayta, was partially destroyed in 1967 and a military post built in its place. Between 1971-72 it was destroyed completely, with the remaining population forcibly transferred to Mas'ade
Mas'ade
Mas'ade is a Druze village in the Golan Heights. It covers an area of 11,985 dunams, and has a population of 3,200. It was given the status of a local council in 1982.Near Mas'ade are Lake Ram and Odem Forest....

, another of the populated villages under Israeli control.

The Israeli Head of Surveying and Demolition Supervision for the Golan Heights proposed the demolition of 127 of the unpopulated villages, with about 90 abandoned villages to be demolished shortly after May 15, 1968. The demolitions were carried out by contractors hired for the job. After the demolitions, the lands were given to Israeli settlers. There was an effort to preserve buildings of archaeological significance and buildings useful for the planned Jewish settlements.

After the 1973 Yom Kippur War, parts of the occupied Golan Heights were returned to Syrian control, including Quneitra, which had changed hands several times during the war. According to a United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

 Special Committee, Israeli forces had deliberately destroyed the city before their 1974 withdrawal.

Depopulated and demolished towns and villages

  • ‘Abbasiya
  • Abu Foula
  • Abu Kheit
  • Ad Dalhamiy
  • Ad-Darbashiya
  • Ahmadiyah
  • ‘Ayn Ayshah
  • ‘Ayn Hur
  • ‘Ain al-Qura
  • ‘Ain Fit
  • ‘Ayn Maymun
  • ‘Ain Sa‘d
  • ‘Ayn Qunyah
  • ‘Ayn as Sumsun
  • ‘Ayn Ziwan
  • Al ‘Al
    Al ‘Al
    Al ‘Al , is a former Syrian village in the southern Golan heights, on the southern tributary of Wadi es-Samekh. Israel occupied the area during the Six-Day War...

  • Ad Darbashiyah
  • Al-‘Amoudiya
  • Al Arba‘in
  • Al Baghali
  • Al Bajjah
  • Al-Bitmiyya
  • Al-Beira
  • Al-‘Eshsha
  • Al Fahham
  • Al-Faraj
  • Al Furn
  • Al-Ghadhiya
  • Al Ghassaniyah
  • Al Hajaf
  • Al Huwaylizah
  • Al-Jawkhadar
  • Al Jumiya
  • Al Karaz at Tawil
  • Al Khushniyah
  • Al-Kursi
  • Al Ma‘barah
  • Al Mashta
  • Al-Mihjar
  • Al Mughir
  • Al Mjeihiya
  • Al Nasriya
  • Al-Naqib
  • Al Qadiriyah
  • Al Qila
  • Al Qerniyat
  • Al-Rafeed
  • Al-Slouqiya al-Gharbiya
  • Al-Slouqiya al-Sharqiya

  • Al Tawafiq
  • Al‘Uyun
  • Al-Qisbiya
  • Al-Yahoudiya
  • Al Yaqusah
  • Ala Amriya
  • Ala Draniya
  • Albutmyia
  • Albarjeiat
  • Aldalwa
  • Alderdara
  • Alghasaaniya
  • Aljwess
  • Alkbash
  • Al Mansurah
  • Almen
  • Almesa’diya
  • Alqahtaniya
  • Alqusaiba
  • Alramtaniya
  • Alslouqiya
  • As-Sanabir
  • As Sindiyanah
  • As Summaqah
  • Amert Lferj
  • Anan Hadid
  • As Saffuriyah
  • ‘Ayshiyya
  • Ash-sha’abaniya
  • ‘Azaziyat
  • Ar Ramthaniyah
  • At Tariq
  • Bab al Hawa
  • Baniyas
    Banias
    Banias is an archaeological site by the ancient city of Caesarea Philippi, located at the foot of Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights...

  • Basset Aljawkhadar
  • Batah
  • Bir al-Shquq
  • Dabiyah
  • Dabburah
  • Dalwa
  • Dabbousiya
  • Dair ‘Aziz
  • Deir mfaddil
  • Dayr Siras
  • Derdara
  • Ein Addisa
  • Ein Alhamra
  • Ein Alsumsum

  • Ein Alziwan
  • Ein at-Tina
  • Ein Eisha
  • Ein Hor
  • Ein Maimoon
  • Ein warda
  • Ein Ziwan
  • Fahham
  • Fakhurah
  • Fiq
    Fiq, Syria
    Fiq is a former Syrian town administratively belonging to Al Quneitra Governorate, located in the Golan Heights. Residing at an altitude of , the Israeli settlement, kibbutz, Afik was built close by. , Fiq had a population of 2,769 , but has since declined....

  • Fazarah
  • Ghzill
  • Hafar
  • Haytal
  • Humma
  • Husayniyah
  • ‘Illayqa
  • Jaraba
  • Jbab al-Mis
  • Jubbayn
  • Jirniyya
  • Jlaybina
  • Jubata ez-Zeit
    Jubata ez-Zeit
    Jubata ez-Zeit was a Syrian village situated in the far north of the Golan Heights. According to an Arab resident of a nearby town, it had a population of around 1,500 to 2,000 people prior to the Six-Day War...

  • Jubet Ra’abana
  • Jurmaiyn
  • Juwayzah
  • Juwayza al-Shamaliya
  • Kafr Naffakh
  • Kifr Alma
  • Kifr ‘Aqab
  • Kifr Hareb
  • Khan al Ahmar
  • Khirbat al Khawkhah
  • Khisfin
  • Khokha
  • Khueikha
  • Krejz al wawi
  • Mamwayra
  • Mishrfawy
  • Mudiriya
  • Mumsy
  • Mashfa‘
  • Maz Alqunetra
  • Mazra‘at Barakhta
  • Mazra um Aliawahin
  • Mghar Muwaysa
  • Mughr Shab’a
  • Muwaysah

  • Nab
  • Na‘ran
  • Nukhaylah
  • Qadriya
  • Qafira
  • Qal' al Qara‘inah
  • Qara‘na
  • Qarahta
  • Qasr Bardawil
  • Qisrin
  • Qila‘
  • Qirz al-Taweel
  • Qtua sh Ali
  • Quneitra
    Quneitra
    Quneitra is the largely destroyed and abandoned capital of the Quneitra Governorate in south-western Syria. It is situated in a high valley in the Golan Heights at an elevation of 1,010 metres above sea level...

  • Qunna‘ba
  • Qusaybah al Jadidah
  • Ramtha
  • Rasm Balut
  • Rawiyah
  • Razzaniya
  • Rijm al-Yaqousa
  • Sa‘id
  • Saffoura
  • Samaqa
  • Saraman
  • Seyar al-Khurfan
  • Seyar Idyab
  • Shabba
  • Shaikh ‘Ali
  • Shkum
  • Shqef
  • Shqeif
  • Sir Dhi'ab
  • Sindiyana
  • Sukayk
  • Skoufiya
  • Shayta
    Shayta
    Shayta, S'heita or Su’heita, was a Syrian village located in the Golan Heights. It was one of only six Syrian villages in the Golan Heights still populated following the Six-Day War. After Israel occupied the area in 1967, Shaytas population census was 176 people, down from 200 in 1960. In 1967,...

  • Tal ash-Shair
  • Tannuriyah
  • Umm al-Dananir
  • Uweinat jan
  • Uweinat shm
  • ‘Uyun al Hajal
  • Wasit
  • Z‘arta
  • Zibdin
  • Za‘urah


See also

  • Population transfer
    Population transfer
    Population transfer is the movement of a large group of people from one region to another by state policy or international authority, most frequently on the basis of ethnicity or religion...

  • Ethnic cleansing
    Ethnic cleansing
    Ethnic cleansing is a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic orreligious group from certain geographic areas....

  • List of villages depopulated during the Arab–Israeli conflict
  • List of Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus

External links

  • Golan Heights and vicinity: October 1994 - CIA map of the Golan Heights, at the Library of Congress
    Library of Congress
    The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...

    , showing abandoned/dismantled Syrian villages.
  • South Lebanon and Vicinity 1976 - Map from the University of Texas at Austin
    University of Texas at Austin
    The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...

    , showing Syrian villages in the Golan Heights from pre-1967 sources.
  • Southern Lebanon Border Area 1986 - Map from the University of Texas at Austin general libraries map collection, showing Syrian villages in the Golan Heights from pre-1967 sources.
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