Mi'ar

The village stood on a rocky hill at the eastern tip of the plain of Acre. A secondary road linked it to al-Damun, to the northwest. Its archaeology suggests that it dated back to Canaanite times ; the Crusaders knew it as Myary. In 1596, Mi'ar was a village in the nahiya of Akka (liwa' of Safad), with a population of 55. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, and fruit, as well as on other types of produce, such as goats and beehives. In the late nineteenth century, Mi'ar was a large village situated on high ground that was rough and uncultivated. The residents of the village, who were estimated at 1,500 in 1859, cultivated some thirty faddans (1 faddan = 100-250 dunums).

In recent times, the houses of the village were made of stone. The Ottomans established a school in Mi'ar in 1888 but it was closed in the final years of the Empire. All of the people living in Mi'ar were Muslims. In 1944/45 they allocated a total of 2,878 dunums of their land to cereals; 113 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. A number of archaeological artifacts were found within and outside the village perimeters, including rock carvings, the remains of buildings, fragments of columns, olive presses, and cisterns.