page_title: Al-Nahr
section_title: Ottoman era
hierarchical_section_title: Al-Nahr / History / Ottoman era
caption_attribution_description: English: Portion of map of Pierre Jacotin of northern Palestine, prepared during French military expedition of 1799 and published in 1826. Full name: Carte topographique de l'Egypte et de plusieurs parties des pays limitrophes ... . David Rumsey Collection
context_page_description: al-Nahr, was a Palestinian village 14 km northeast of Acre. It was depopulated in May 1948 after a military assault carried out by the Carmeli Brigade as part of the Israel Defense Forces's Operation Ben-Ami. Immediately after the assault, the village of al-Nahr was razed.
context_section_description: In the Ottoman period, the village appeared under the name of El Qahweh in Pierre Jacotin´s map from 1799.
  In 1875, the French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village, which he called El Kahoueh. He found it to have 120 inhabitants, all Muslims.
  In 1881 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described the village, then named El Kahweh, as a "stone village, containing about 250 Moslems, [] situated on the plain, surrounded by figs, olives, mulberries, and pomegranates; there is a spring and flowing stream at this village."
  A population list from about 1887 showed that el Kahweh had 370 inhabitant; all Muslims.
caption: Named El Qahweh in Pierre Jacotin's map from 1799
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