al-Samiriyya (السامرية)

Place

Museum of the Palestinian People (MPP)

Place Name

Place Description

A historic Palestinian village in the Baysan subdistrict, situated on flat terrain in the Baysan Valley east of the highway leading to Baysan, at the junction of roads connecting it with Baysan, Qa'un, and Arab al-Arida. Its agricultural landscape was dominated by cereal cultivation, with 2,801 dunums devoted to cereals and 11 dunums to irrigated or orchard land in 1944/45, while several nearby archaeological sites included Khirbat al-Humra, Tulul al-Thawm, and Tall al-Khab.