al-Mansura

The village was south of Mount Hazur (or Hadhur), whose foothills bordered the village on the north and overlooked one of the tributaries of Wadi al-Rabadiyya that flowed into Lake Tiberias. It was linked by secondary roads to highways leading to Tiberias, Safad, and Nazareth. AI-Mansura was next to the village of Mughar in the west and was originally an offshoot of this village. In the late nineteenth century, aI-Mansura was a village built of stone, situated on the slope of a hill. The village's estimated 150 to 200 residents cultivated 'extensive' olive groves to the south. The steep slope of its land induced the villagers to build terraces on the hillsides to preserve the soil. Accordingly, its houses followed the same arrangement of graduated elevation, and were built mostly of stones, mud (used as mortar), and timber. During the last years of the British Mandate, the combined population of aI-Mansura and Mughar consisted of 1,250 Druze Muslims, 800 Christians, and 90 Sunni Muslims. The villagers worked in agriculture, cultivating mainly grain and olives. In 1944/45 a total of 18,352 dunums of the land of the two villages was allocated to cereals; 7,864 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.