Al-Nahr
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| Arabic | النهر |
| Name meaning | In 1881, the place was named Kahweh, meaning "the coffee shop" |
| Also spelled | an-Nahr |
| Subdistrict | Acre |
| Coordinates | 33°00′26″N 35°08′29″E / 33.00722°N 35.14139°ECoordinates: 33°00′26″N 35°08′29″E / 33.00722°N 35.14139°E |
| Palestine grid | 163/268 |
| Population | 610 (1945) |
| Area | 5,261 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | 21 May 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Ben Ami,Kabri |
al-Nahr (Arabic: النهر), was a Palestinian village 14 km northeast of Acre. It was depopulated in May 1948 after a military assault carried out by the Carmeli Brigade as part of the Israel Defense Forces's Operation Ben-Ami. Immediately after the assault the village of al-Nahr was razed.
The twin villages of Al-Nahr and nearby al-Tall were both sites of ancient settlements atop the tel of Kabri. Recent excavations indicate habitation back to the sixth millennium BC.
In the Ottoman period, the village appeared under the name of El Qahweh in Pierre Jacotin´s map from 1799. In 1875, the French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village, which he called El Kahoueh. He found it to have 120 inhabitants, all Muslims.
In 1881 the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described the village, then named El Kahweh, as a "stone village, containing about 250 Moslems, [] situated on the plain, surrounded by figs, olives, mulberries, and pomegranates; there is a spring and flowing stream at this village."
A population list from about 1887 showed that el Kahweh had 370 inhabitant; all Muslims.
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Al Nahr wa Tal had a population of 422; 3 Bahai, the rest Muslim. In the 1931 census, Al-Nahr had 522 Muslim inhabitants, in a total of 120 houses.
In villagers of Al-Nahr lived principally of agriculture and animal husbandry. In 1944/45 it had a population of 610 Muslims, with 5,261 dunams of land. A total of 2,066 dunums was used for citrus and bananas, 1,094 dunums were allotted to cereals, 1,937 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, of which 30 dunums were planted in olive trees, while 28 dunams were built-up land.
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