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Biriyya (Arabic: بيريّا) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 2, 1948, by The Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 1.5 kilometres (0.9 mi) northeast of Safad. Today the Israeli moshav of Birya includes the village site.
The village was on a hill 1.5 kilometres northeast of Safad. It is believed to have been built on the site of the Roman village of Beral or Bin, which was later also a Jewish town. Ishtori Haparchi, however, thought the village to have been the Beri of rabbinic literature.
In the 1596 tax record, Biriyya was a village in the nahiya of Jira (Liwa' of Safad) with a Muslim population of 38 families and 3 bachelors, and a Jewish population of 16 families and 1 bachelor; a total estimated population of 319 persons. The villagers paid taxes on crops such as wheat, barley, and olives and other types of produce and owned beehives, vineyards, and a press that was used for processing olives. Total taxes paid was 3,145 akçe.
A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin showed the place, named as "Beria", while in 1838 Biria was noted as a village in the Safad region.
In 1875 Victor Guérin found Biriyya to have about 150 Muslim inhabitants. In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Biriyya as having "good stone houses, containing about 100 Muslims, surrounded by arable cultivation, and several good springs near the village".
A population list from about 1887 showed Biria to have about 355 Muslim inhabitants.
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Biria had a population of 128, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 170, still all Muslims, in a total of 38 houses.
In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 240 Muslims with a total of 5,579 dunums of land. A total of 328 dunums were used for cereals, 53 dunums for irrigation for use in the orchards, while 25 dunums were built-up (urban) land.
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Biriyya
Biriyya (Arabic: بيريّا) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 2, 1948, by The Palmach's First Battalion of Operation Yiftach. It was located 1.5 kilometres (0.9 mi) northeast of Safad. Today the Israeli moshav of Birya includes the village site.
The village was on a hill 1.5 kilometres northeast of Safad. It is believed to have been built on the site of the Roman village of Beral or Bin, which was later also a Jewish town. Ishtori Haparchi, however, thought the village to have been the Beri of rabbinic literature.
In the 1596 tax record, Biriyya was a village in the nahiya of Jira (Liwa' of Safad) with a Muslim population of 38 families and 3 bachelors, and a Jewish population of 16 families and 1 bachelor; a total estimated population of 319 persons. The villagers paid taxes on crops such as wheat, barley, and olives and other types of produce and owned beehives, vineyards, and a press that was used for processing olives. Total taxes paid was 3,145 akçe.
A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin showed the place, named as "Beria", while in 1838 Biria was noted as a village in the Safad region.
In 1875 Victor Guérin found Biriyya to have about 150 Muslim inhabitants. In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Biriyya as having "good stone houses, containing about 100 Muslims, surrounded by arable cultivation, and several good springs near the village".
A population list from about 1887 showed Biria to have about 355 Muslim inhabitants.
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Biria had a population of 128, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 170, still all Muslims, in a total of 38 houses.
In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 240 Muslims with a total of 5,579 dunums of land. A total of 328 dunums were used for cereals, 53 dunums for irrigation for use in the orchards, while 25 dunums were built-up (urban) land.
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