al-Farradiyya

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District: Safed

Population 1948: 780

Occupation date: 01/10/1948

Jewish settlements on village/town land before 1948: None

Jewish settlements on village/town land after 1948: פרוד, שפר

Background:

The village stood on the southern slope of Mount Zabud. The Nazareth—Safad highway passed just to the north of it. Al-~Farradiyya may have been built on the site of a village known during the Roman period as Parod. The Arab geogra­pher al-Maqdisi (d. 985) referred to it as al-Farradhiyya and described it as a large village, renowned for its groves of fruit trees and p-apes, located in a pleasant area with plentiful water.

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Palestinian refugees at the human rights march in Tel Aviv 11/2011
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Hassan Ahmed Mansour 01/09/2009