 al-birwa (, al-birweh) was a palestinian arab village, located  east of acre (akka).welcome to al-birwa mentioned by arab geographers in the 11th century, it was known to the crusaders as broet. al-birwa was captured from the mamluks by the ottomans in the 16th century. in the 19th century, it had a mosque, a church, and an elementary school for boys. a school for girls was built during the british mandate. during the 1948 arab-israeli war, al-birwa was occupied by the israel defense forces. the inhabitants fled to nearby villages or refugee camps in lebanon. kibbutz yas'ur and moshav ahihud were established on the lands of al-birwa in 1949 and 1950. == history == the persian geographer nasir khusraw visited al-birwa in 1047 while it was under fatimid rule. he describes it as lying "between acre and damun," and reports having visited what he described as the tombs of simeon and esau there.le strange, 1890, p.423. while under crusader rule, al-birwa was called broet. in the 1253 john aleman, lord of caesarea, sold al-birwa together with several other villages to the hospitallers.delaville le roulx, 1883, p. 184; cited in clermont-ganneau, 1888, pp. 309 -310; cited in rÃ¶hricht, 1893, rrh, p. 319, no. 1210 al-birwa was mentioned as part of the domain of the crusaders during the hudna between the crusaders based in acre and the mamluk sultan al-mansur (qalawun) declared in 1283. in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, it came under mamluk rule after the defeat of the crus
Arab_villages_depopulated_during_the_1948_ArabaIsraeli_War District_of_Acre