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Baysamun
بيسمون
Beisamun, En Besamun, Basimun[1]
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Baysamun is located in Mandatory Palestine
Baysamun
Baysamun
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°5′51″N 35°34′54″E / 33.09750°N 35.58167°E / 33.09750; 35.58167
Palestine grid204/278
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictSafad
Date of depopulationMay 25, 1948[3]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total20[2]
Cause(s) of depopulationWhispering campaign

Baysamun or Beisamoun (Arabic: بيسمون, Beisamûn) was a small Palestinian Arab village, located 16.5 kilometers (10.3 mi) in the marshy Hula Valley northeast of Safad. In 1945, it had a population of 20.[4] It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 25, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion in Operation Yiftach.

Beisamoun is an important archaeological site for the Neolithic period, with two plastered human skulls, cremation signs and house floors found there. It stood in close proximity to another major Natufian ("Final Old Stone Age") site, 'Ain Mallaha.

History

Prehistoric and Bronze Age site

Beisamoun (archaeological site)
History
PeriodsPre-Pottery Neolithic B (mainly), Pottery Neolithic, Bronze Age

Kathleen Kenyon notes that Beisamoun disappeared under modern drainage systems set up by Israel; in the fish ponds created, Neolithic remains were found that included houses and two plastered skulls.[5] Rectangular houses with plastered floors show striking similarities to those at Byblos.[5][6] These "Levantine pier house[s]" were also found in Yiftahel, Ayn Ghazal, and Jericho.[7]

A main period of habitation was during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B era, but also Pottery Neolithic and Bronze Age remains have been found.[8]

British Mandate village

The population of Baysamun in the 1922 census of Palestine consisted of 41 Muslims,[9] increasing to 50 Muslims in 11 houses by 1931.[10]

In the 1945 statistics the population was 20 Muslims,[2] with a total of 2,102 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[11] Of this, 107 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,817 for cereals;[12] while 133 dunams was non-cultivable area.[13]

1948, aftermath

It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 25, 1948, by the Palmach's First Battalion in Operation Yiftach in a Whispering campaign.[3][14]

In 1992 the village site was described: "No traces of the houses remain. The site is occupied by warehouses for agricultural implements used by Kibbutz Manara, which had been established in 1943. The land around the site is cultivated and fish ponds have been constructed close to it."[15]

References

  1. ^ Grootkerk, 2000, p. 120
  2. ^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 9
  3. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xvi, village #27. Also gives cause of depopulation.
  4. ^ Hadawi, 1970, p. 69.
  5. ^ a b Kenyon, 1985, p. 29.
  6. ^ Wright, 1985, p. 30.
  7. ^ Negev and Gibson, 2005, p. 232.
  8. ^ Khalaily and Bocquentin, 2008, Beisamoun (Mallaha)
  9. ^ Barron, 1923, Table XI, p. 42
  10. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 105
  11. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 69.
  12. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 118
  13. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 970, p. 168
  14. ^ Morris, 2004, p. 251
  15. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 438

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