Al-Tall, Acre
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| Arabic | التلّ |
| Name meaning | The mound |
| Also spelled | al-Tell |
| Subdistrict | Acre |
| Coordinates | 33°00′31″N 35°08′19″E / 33.00861°N 35.13861°ECoordinates: 33°00′31″N 35°08′19″E / 33.00861°N 35.13861°E |
| Palestine grid | 163/268 |
| Population | 300 (1945) |
| Area | 4,733 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | 21 May 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Al-Tall (Arabic: التلّ), was a Palestinian village 14 km northeast of Acre in the British Mandate 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.
The twin villages of Al-Tall and nearby Al-Nahr were both sites of ancient settlements atop the tel of Kabri. Recent excavations indicate habitation back to the eighteenth century BC.
In the Ottoman period, a mill was shown here on Pierre Jacotin´s map from 1799. 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 mill, worked by water falling from a higher basin, which acts as a reservoir for a spring as abundant as that of 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."
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