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{{Other places|Al-Tall (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox settlement
| name                    = al-Tall
| native_name             = التلّ
| native_name_lang        = ar
| other_name              = al-Tell
| settlement_type         = Village
<!-- images, nickname, motto -->
| etymology               = The mound<ref>Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/55/mode/1up 55]</ref>
<!-- maps and coordinates -->
| pushpin_map             = Mandatory Palestine | pushpin_map_caption     = Location within [[Mandatory Palestine]] | image_map               = {{Historical map series|default=2|date1=1870s|date2=1940s|date3=modern|date4=1940s with modern overlay|width=225|name=al-Tall, Acre}} | map_caption             = A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Tall, Acre (click the buttons)
| pushpin_mapsize         = 200
| coordinates             = {{coord|33|00|31|N|35|08|19|E|type:city_region:PS|display=inline,title}}
| grid_name               = [[Palestine grid|Palestine&nbsp;grid]]
| grid_position           = 163/268
<!-- location -->
| subdivision_type        = [[Geopolitical entity]]
| subdivision_name        = [[Mandatory Palestine]]
| subdivision_type1       = [[Districts of Mandatory Palestine|Subdistrict]]
| subdivision_name1       = [[Acre Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine|Acre]]
<!-- established -->
| established_title1      = Date of depopulation
| established_date1       = 21 May 1948<ref>Morris, 2004, p.  [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PR17  xvii], village #80 Also gives cause of depopulation</ref>
| established_title2      = Repopulated dates
<!-- area -->
| area_footnotes          = <ref>
| unit_pref               = dunam
| area_total_dunam        = 4,733 [http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/al-Tall/index.html Palestine Remembered] - al-Tall</ref>
<!-- population -->
| population_as_of        = 1945
| population_total        = 300
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| blank_name_sec1         = Cause(<span class="ltr">s</span>) of depopulation
| blank_info_sec1         = Military assault by [[Yishuv]] forces
}}
'''Al-Tall''' ({{lang-ar|التلّ}}), was a [[Palestinians|Palestinian]] village 14&nbsp;km northeast of [[Acre, Israel|Acre]] in the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate]] [[Acre Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine|District of Acre]]. Depopulated as a result of military assault and capture during the [[1947-1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine]] as part of Operation [[Operation Ben-Ami]] by the [[Carmeli Brigade]] of the [[Israel Defense Forces]].

==History==
The twin villages of Al-Tall and nearby [[Al-Nahr]] were both sites of ancient settlements atop the tel of [[Tel Kabri|Kabri]].<ref name="vol. 3">Stern,  Lewinson-Gilboa,  Avriam, 1993,  pp. 839–841</ref> Recent excavations indicate habitation back to the eighteenth century BC.<ref>Aaron Kempinsky, 1987: ''[[Israel Exploration Journal]]'' 37:176. Cited in Khalidi, 1992, pp. 27-28</ref>

===Ottoman era===
In the  [[Ottoman empire|Ottoman]] period, a [[Watermill|mill]] was shown here on   [[Pierre Jacotin]]´s map from 1799.<ref>Karmon, 1960, p. [http://www.jchp.ucla.edu/Bibliography/Karmon,_Y_1960_Jacotin_Map_(IEJ_10).pdf 160] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201182028/http://jchp.ucla.edu/Bibliography/Karmon,_Y_1960_Jacotin_Map_(IEJ_10).pdf |date=2017-12-01 }} Karmon, p. 246 mention Al-Tall as an example of a village which did not exist on the  1799 map, but existed on the [[Palestine Exploration Fund|PEF]] maps</ref>
In 1875, the French explorer [[Victor Guérin]] visited the village, which he called ''Et-Tell''. He described it: "Below the village extend fresh and verdant gardens where the water flows and murmurs  incessantly in little canals, and where lofty poplars and great nut-trees, which recall Europe, mingle with the trees of Palestine. Near here is a [[watermill|mill]], worked by water falling from a higher basin, which acts as a reservoir for a spring as abundant as that of [[Antipatris|Ras el 'Ain]]. After leaving the mill, the water forms a stream which fertilises the adjacent orchards. This raised and broad reservoir, whence the water escapes by an opening made for the purpose in the edge of the reservoir, is of modern construction, as is shown by the stones; but its first building must be ancient, because it is difficult to believe that the ancients should have neglected to get all the advantage possible from so important a spring."<ref>Guérin, 1880,  pp. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr00gugoog#page/n47/mode/1up 31]-32, as translated by Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p.   [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/148/mode/1up 148]</ref>

In 1881  the [[Palestine Exploration Fund|PEF]]'s ''[[PEF Survey of Palestine|Survey of Western Palestine]]'' described the village as "A stone and [[adobe]] village, containing about 200
Moslems, with [[Ficus|figs]],  [[olive]], [[pomegranate]], and [[mulberry]] trees  and gardens;  there are two streams of water at this village."<ref>Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/148/mode/1up  148]</ref> The layout of the village was rectangular. Its houses were built from stone and concrete or from [[adobe|mud]].<ref name=Makhul>Makhul, 1977, p. 117.   Cited in Khalidi, 1992, p.32</ref>

A population list from about 1887 showed that  ''Nahret Tell'' had about 275 inhabitants, all Muslim.<ref>Schumacher, 1888, p. [https://archive.org/stream/quarterlystateme19pale#page/n197/mode/1up 172]</ref>

===British era===
In  [[Village Statistics, 1945|1944/1945]], the population of Al-Tall was 300.<ref name=Makhul/>

===Israeli rule===
Al-Tall was captured by the [[Carmeli Brigade]] during [[Operation Ben-Ami]]. Following the war the area was incorporated into the [[Israel|State of Israel]], but the village's land has not been incorporated into any municipality or village.<ref name="Khalidi 1992, p.32">Khalidi, 1992, p. 32</ref>

According to the Palestinian historian [[Walid Khalidi]], the remaining structures on the village land were in 1992:
"The site is covered with the rubble of stone houses and is overgrown with wild grass. One stone house still stands but its facade is missing and it is about to crumble.  Cactuses and fig trees grow on the southern slopes of the site. There are four identifiable [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] and [[Byzantine]] tombs in the cemetery that lies on the northern slopes, a [[Christ-thorn]] tree stands in its midst. Recent excavations has uncovered several ancient graves, and the place has been turned into an archaeological site."<ref name="Khalidi 1992, p.32" />

In 1993, when A. Petersen visited the place, the only structure he found standing was a [[cistern]], known as Birket al-Mafshukh,<ref>Meaning "Pool of the split (rock &<span class="ltr">c</span>)", according to Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/41/mode/1up 41]</ref> located north of the tell. In 1881, it had been described as a "birket of masonry, and a large perennial spring, with a stream flowing from it to the sea; the stream is called the Nahr Mefshukh; gives a very plentiful supply of water."<ref>Conder and Kitchener, 1881;  Birket al-Mafshukh p.[https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/158/mode/1up 158]</ref> According to Petersen, the birkat was  "rectangular with a semi-circular extension at the west end."<ref>Petersen, 2001, p. [https://www.academia.edu/21620272/Gazetteer_6._S-Z 290]</ref>

==See also==
*[[Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel]]

==References==
{{reflist|25em}}

==Bibliography==
{{refbegin}}
*{{cite book|last1=Conder|first1=C.R.|author-link1=Claude Reignier Conder|last2=Kitchener|first2=H.H.|author-link2=Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp01conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology|location=London|publisher=[[Palestine Exploration Fund|Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund]]|volume=1}}  
*{{cite book|last=Guérin|first=V.|author-link=Victor Guérin|title=Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine|url=https://archive.org/details/descriptiongogr00gugoog|volume=3: Galilee, pt. 2|year=1880|publisher=L'Imprimerie Nationale|location=Paris|language=fr}}  
*{{cite journal | author = Karmon, Y. | title = An Analysis of Jacotin's Map of Palestine | url = http://www.jchp.ucla.edu/Bibliography/Karmon,_Y_1960_Jacotin_Map_(IEJ_10).pdf | journal = [[Israel Exploration Journal]] | volume = 10 | issue = 3,4 | year = 1960 | pages = 155–173; 244–253 | access-date = 2014-07-20 | archive-date = 2017-12-01 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171201182028/http://jchp.ucla.edu/Bibliography/Karmon,_Y_1960_Jacotin_Map_(IEJ_10).pdf | url-status = dead }}
*{{cite book|title=All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_By7AAAAIAAJ|first=W.|last=Khalidi|author-link=Walid Khalidi|year=1992|location=[[Washington D.C.]]|publisher=[[Institute for Palestine Studies]]|isbn=0-88728-224-5}} 
*{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C |first=B. |last=Morris |author-link=Benny Morris |year=2004 |title=The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited |isbn=978-0-521-00967-6 |publisher=Cambridge University Press }}
*{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=E.H.|author-link=Edward Henry Palmer|year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp00conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer|publisher=[[Palestine Exploration Fund|Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund]]}}    
*{{cite book|last=Petersen|first=Andrew|title=A Gazetteer of Buildings in Muslim Palestine (British Academy Monographs in Archaeology)|url=https://www.academia.edu/21620272|volume=1|year=2001|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-727011-0}}  
*{{cite journal | last = Schumacher | first = G. | author-link = Gottlieb Schumacher | title = Population list of the Liwa of Akka | journal = Quarterly Statement - Palestine Exploration Fund | volume = 20 | pages = 169–191 | url = https://archive.org/details/quarterlystateme19pale | year = 1888 }} 
*{{cite book | title=The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KmZkrgEACAAJ | publisher=Israel Exploration Society & Carta, Simon and Schuster | author1=Stern, E. | author-link1=Ephraim Stern | author2=Lewinson-Gilboa, A. | author3=Avriam, J. | year=1993 | location=Jerusalem | pages=839–841 | isbn=0-13-276312-5 | volume=3 }}
{{refend}}

==External links==
*[http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/al-Tall/index.html Welcome to al-Tall]
*[http://www.zochrot.org/en/village/49500 al-Tall],  [[Zochrot]] 
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 3: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8366  IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.03.jpg Wikimedia commons] 
*[http://www.jalili48.com/pub/xENShowGallery.aspx?Sub=What_Remained_of_the_destroyed&Sub2=Al-Tal Al-Tal], pictures, Dr. Moslih Kanaaneh
*[http://www.alnakba.org/villages/acre/altall.htm Al-Tall] from the [[Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center]]

{{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War}}

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