Mi'ilya (معليا)

Place

Museum of the Palestinian People (MPP)

Place Name

Mi'ilya (معليا)

Place Description

A historic Palestinian Christian village in the western Galilee, situated in the mountainous region east of Acre and dominated by the remains of a medieval fortress. Its agricultural landscape included olive groves, cereals, vineyards, and arable land, with 1945 statistics recording 2,883 dunums of cereals and 1,509 dunums of irrigated and plantation land; nineteenth-century descriptions likewise emphasize its surrounding olives and cultivated fields.