| Za'ura زعورة | |
|---|---|
| Village | |
  Za'ura | |
| Coordinates: 33°13′08″N 35°42′36″E / 33.218845°N 35.709916°E / 33.218845; 35.709916 | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Quneitra |
| District | Quneitra |
| Region | Golan Heights |
| Destroyed | 1967 |
Za'ura (Arabic: زعورة), was a Syrian Alawite village situated in the northwestern Golan Heights.
The German explorer Ulrich Jasper Seetzen visited Za'ura in 1806 during his travels in the region.
In 1888 the village consisted of 65 dwellings and 350 residents. They grew rice in the Hula marshes and tobacco around the village.
Before 1967, it was one of three mainly Alawite villages in the Golan Heights together with 'Ayn Fit and Ghajar. After Israel occupied the area in the Six-Day War, they began destroying Syrian villages in the Golan Heights. Za'ura was destroyed in 1967.
See also
References
- Sulimani & Kletter 2022, p. 50
- "Golan Heights and vicinity : October 1994". The Library of Congress. 1994-01-01. Retrieved 2024-08-14. (Za'ura shown as an abandoned/dismantled Syrian village)
- ^ Abu 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. Retrieved 2024-08-14.
- ^ Schumacher, 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
- 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.
