Al-Ghabisiyya

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.

History

A winepress, 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.

Ottoman era

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.