Al-Manshiyya
المنشية | |
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Village | |
| Etymology: From personal name[1] | |
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  Al-Manshiyya Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°41′33″N 35°33′29″E / 32.69250°N 35.55806°E | |
| Palestine grid | 203/233 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Tiberias |
| Date of depopulation | March 3, 1948 |
| Current Localities | Beit Zera[2] |
Al-Manshiyya (Arabic: المنشية) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict, located 11 kilometres south of Tiberias.[3] It was probably depopulated at the same time as neighbouring Al-'Ubaydiyya, in the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine.[4] Manshiyya was located 1 km south-west of Umm Junieh or Khirbat Umm Juni.
In 1799, in the late Ottoman period, Um Junieh was noted as "ruins" on the map of Pierre Jacotin.[5] In 1875, Victor Guérin noted Um Junieh as a village.[6] In the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine in 1881 Umm Junieh was described as having 250 inhabitants, all Muslim.[7] They noted that it was possible that Umm Junieh was the place which Josephus called Union.[8]
In the 1880s the land of Khirbat Umm Juni and Al-Manshiyya was bought on behalf of the Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith. The Arab inhabitants continued to farm the land as tenant farmers.[3]
A population list from about 1887 showed that Kiryet Umm Juny had about 330 Muslim inhabitants.[9]
In 1905-1907 the land was resold to the Jewish National Fund. What were to become Kibbutz Degania was established at Umm Juni, in part using existing Arab-made mud huts and for a while the Arab village and the Jewish one coexisted.
In the 1922 census of Palestine, there were 79 Muslim residents in Khirbat Umm Juneh,[10] while no number is available for Al-Manshiyya.[3][dubious ]
In 1992 the village site was described: "The site is covered with grasses and a few palm and eucalyptus trees; no traces of buildings remain. The surrounding lands are cultivated by Israelis."[2]
