Mi'ar

Mi'ar (Arabic: ميعار‎), known to the Crusaders as Myary, was a Palestinian village located 17.5 kilometers east of Acre. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

History

Mi'ar contained the archaeological remains of buildings, fragments of columns, olive presses, and cisterns.

Ottoman era

Incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, Mi'ar appeared in the 1596 tax registers as being in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Akka under the Liwa of Safad, with a population of 55. It paid taxes on wheat and barley, fruit, as well as on goats and beehives.

In 1875, Victor Guérin visited Mi'ar, and "remarked here several trunks of columns, three broken capitals, and a certain number ol cut stones, coming from some ancient building. I observed also many blocks of ancient appearance disposed round threshing-floors. There are also cisterns, walls, and caves cut in the rock, which belong to times more or less remote." He found Mi'ar to be inhabited by 500, all Muslims.

Mišar

Mišar is a town in the municipality of Šabac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the town has a population of 2,217 people.

In August 1806, the Battle of Mišar occurred in this village.

References

Coordinates: 44°43′45″N 19°45′39″E / 44.72917°N 19.76083°E / 44.72917; 19.76083