Za'ura (Arabic:زعورة), was aSyrianAlawite village situated in the northwesternGolan Heights.[2][3]
Za'ura زعورة | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Za'ura | |
| Coordinates:33°13′08″N35°42′36″E / 33.218845°N 35.709916°E /33.218845; 35.709916 | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Quneitra |
| District | Quneitra |
| Region | Golan Heights |
| Destroyed | 1967[1] |
The German explorerUlrich Jasper Seetzen visited Za'ura in 1806 during his travels in the region.[4]
In 1888 the village consisted of 65 dwellings and 350 residents.[5] They grew rice in theHula marshes and tobacco around the village.[5]
Before 1967, it was one of three mainly Alawite villages in the Golan Heights together with'Ayn Fit andGhajar.[3] After Israel occupied the area in theSix-Day War, they began destroying Syrian villages in the Golan Heights.[6] Za'ura was destroyed in 1967.[7]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^Sulimani & Kletter 2022, p. 50
- ^"Golan Heights and vicinity : October 1994".The Library of Congress. 1994-01-01. Retrieved2024-08-14. (Za'ura shown as an abandoned/dismantled Syrian village)
- ^abAbu Fakhr, Sakr (2000)."Voices from the Golan".Journal of Palestine Studies.29 (4):5–36.doi:10.2307/2676559.JSTOR 2676559.
- ^Winter, Stefan (2016).A History of the 'Alawis: From Medieval Aleppo to the Turkish Republic. Princeton University Press. p. 31.ISBN 978-0-691-17389-4. Retrieved2024-08-14.
- ^abSchumacher, Gottlieb (1888).The Jaulân: Surveyed for the German Society for the Exploration of the Holy Land. London: Richard Bentley and Son. p. 272.
- ^Sulimani & Kletter 2022, pp. 55–56
- ^Sulimani & Kletter 2022, p. 50
Bibliography
edit- Sulimani, Gideon; Kletter, Raz (2022). "Settler-Colonialism and the Diary of an Israeli Settler in the Golan Heights: The Notebooks of Izhaki Gal".Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies.21 (1). Edinburgh University Press:48–71.doi:10.3366/hlps.2022.0283.ISSN 2054-1988.