al-Mansura

Classified as a hamlet in the Palestine Index Gazetteer, al-Mansura stood on the northern shoulder of a mountain in Upper Galilee. The summit of the mountain rose behind the village, to its south, and wide expanses of land stretched out below the village to the east, west, and north. Al-Mansura remained part of Lebanon until 1923, when the British and French delineated the international borders in the area and placed it in Palestine. A secondary road connected it to the Acre–Ra's al-Naqura highway on the coast. Its houses were built at some distance from one another. Al-Mansura was predominantly Christian; it had its own church. It obtained drinking water from a well to the north and from three water tanks to the south. Its economy was based principally on agriculture and animal husbandry. Olive trees were planted on 900 dunums of land that belonged to the people in al-Mansura and the neighboring Fassuta and Dayr al-Qasi. In 1944/45 a total of 6,475 dunums of the lands of the three villages was allocated to cereals; 1,617 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Next to the village were two khirbas which contained building foundations, presses, cisterns, and the remains of a fort.