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Al-Ras al-Ahmar

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Al-Ras al-Ahmar was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on October 30, 1948, by the Israeli 7th Armored Brigade during Operation Hiram. It was located 8.5 km north of Safad. Remains found in the village indicate that it was populated during the Byzantine era. Incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with the rest of Palestine, in 1596 it appeared under the name of Ras al-Ahmar in the tax registers as part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Jira in the Safad Sanjak. It had an all Muslim population, consisting of 54 households and 22 bachelors; an estimated 418 persons. They paid taxes on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, vineyards, "kirsanna", goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and an olive oil or grape syrup press; the taxes totalled 5,500 akçe. Half of the revenues went to a Waqf. In 1838 er-Ras al-Ahmar was noted as a village located in the Safad district. Algerian followers of Abdelkader El Djezairi have been defeated by the French in Algeria, and sought refuge in another part of the Ottoman Empire. They were settled in various locations in Ottoman Syria, including Al-Ras al-Ahmar. In 1875 Victor Guérin found that the village was situated 844 meters above sea level, and contained 150 Muslims. In 1881 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described the village "Well-built stone houses. containing 350 Algerian Moslems, situated on high hill, with gardens down the slopes. There is a perennial supply of good water in Wâdy Râs el Ahmar." A population list from about 1887 showed Ras el Ahmar to have about 690 Muslim inhabitants. In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Al-Ras al-Ahmar had a population of 405; all Muslims, increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 447; 6 Christians and 441 Muslims, in a total of 92 houses. In the 1945 statistics, al-Ras al-Ahmar had a population of 620, all Muslims, and a land area of 7,934 dunams.

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