Nasir ad-Din, Palestine

Nasir ad-Din
نصر الدين
Nasr ad-Din, Nasir al-Din
Village
Etymology: from personal name
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Nasir ad-Din
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°46′43″N 35°31′24″E / 32.77861°N 35.52333°E / 32.77861; 35.52333
Palestine grid199/242
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictTiberias
Date of depopulation12 and 23 April 1948
Area
(together with Al-Manara)
 • Total
4,185 dunams (4.185 km2 or 1.616 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
90
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Secondary causeInfluence of nearby town's fall
Tertiary causeFear of being caught up in the fighting
Current LocalitiesResidential areas of Tiberias

Nasir ad-Dīn (Arabic: نصر الدين) was a small Palestinian Arab village 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) southwest of Tiberias, on the crest of a slope that overlooks the Sea of Galilee. The village had several springs to the east, south, and southeast. In the 1931 British census 179 people lived there, decreasing to 90 in a 1945 census. Nasir ad-Din and nearby al-Manara were in the same jurisdiction with 4,185 dunams of land, most of which was allocated to cereals.

In the 1948 Palestine war, the village was destroyed and its residents expelled as part of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion.

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