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Burayr
برير
Bureir
Ibreir
Etymology: "The little wilderness"[1]
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Burayr is located in Mandatory Palestine
Burayr
Burayr
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°34′14″N 34°38′29″E / 31.57056°N 34.64139°E / 31.57056; 34.64139
Palestine grid116/108
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictGaza
Date of depopulationMay 12, 1948[4]
Area
 • Total46,184 dunams (46.1 km2 or 17.8 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total2,740[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesBror Hayil,[5][6] Tlamim,[6] Zohar,[6] Sde David,[6] Heletz[6]

Burayr (Arabic: برير) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict, 18 kilometers (11 mi) northeast of Gaza City. Its population in 1945 was 2,740 and it was depopulated in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It had an average elevation of 100 meters (330 ft).

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 367
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 31
  3. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 45
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village No. 318. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  5. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xx, settlement No. 6.
  6. ^ a b c d e Khalidi, 1992, p. 92

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