Al-Hamma, Tiberias
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Al-Hamma was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict, 12 kilometres southeast of Tiberias. It was situated on a narrow salient in the Yarmouk Valley bounded by Syria to the north and Tr
Former railway station of Al-Hamma, with a sign in Arabic reading "al-Hama".
Al-Hamma mosque, in 2011
Samakh, Tiberias
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Samakh was a Palestinian Arab village at the south end of Lake Tiberias in Ottoman Galilee and later Mandatory Palestine. It was the site of battle in 1918 during World War I.
Al-Hamma, Tiberias
…In 1875, the French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village. In 1905, the Jezreel Valley railway opened, linking Haifa via Samakh and Al-Hamma to the Hejaz Railway at Daraa. In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Samakh and Al-Hamma were…
Samakh from the air, 1931
Handley Page H.P.42, British four-engined long-range biplane airliner of Imperial Airways, at Samakh, October 1931.
The mosque at Samakh, between WWI and WW2
Samakh 1925, Degania in foreground