Al-Ghabisiyya
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| Arabic | الغابسية |
| Name meaning | from ghabus, "dusky, ashen, grey" |
| Also spelled | El Ghabsiyeh |
| Subdistrict | Acre |
| Coordinates | 33°00′02″N 35°09′00″E / 33.00056°N 35.15000°ECoordinates: 33°00′02″N 35°09′00″E / 33.00056°N 35.15000°E |
| Palestine grid | 164/267 |
| Population | 690 (1945) |
| Area | 11,771 dunams 11.8 km² |
| Date of depopulation | May 1948, 1949 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Expulsion by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Netiv HaShayara |
Al-Ghabisiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in northern Palestine, 16 km north-east of Acre in present-day Israel. It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948-1950 period and remains deserted.
A wine press, dating to the Bronze age, has been found at Al-Ghabisiyya. Other remains, suggesting that the place might have had a Roman and Byzantine settlement have also been discovered. One Corinthian capital was observed there in the 19th century.
During the Crusader period the site was known as La Gabasie and was one of the fiefs of Casal Imbert. It was described as part of the domain of the Crusaders during the hudna ("truce") between the Crusaders based in Acre and the Mamluk sultan al-Mansur Qalawun in 1283.
According to Hütteroth, Abdulfattah and Petersen, the village probably corresponds to that of Ghabiyya in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Akka, in the Liwa (sanjak) of Safad, in a 1596 C.E. Ottoman daftar (tax register). This village had a population of 58 households (khana) and 2 bachelors (mujarrad), all Moslem. It paid taxes on wheat, barley, fruit trees, cotton, and water buffalo.
A map by Pierre Jacotin from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 showed the place, named as El Rabsieh. The village mosque dates from the time of Ali Pasha al-Khazindar, father of Abdullah Pasha (i.e. some time before 1818 CE). French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village, which he called "El-Rhabsieh", in 1875. In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described al-Ghabisiyya as "a village, built of stone, containing about 150 Moslems, on the edge of the plain, surrounded by olives, figs, pomegranate and gardens; a stream of water near, plentiful of water."
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