Al-Mansura, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the
Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the
census of 1596, the village was located in the nahiya of
Tabariyya, part of
Safad Sanjak. It had a population of 16 households, all
Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, rice, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; the taxes totalled 530
akçe.[4][5]
In 1838, el-Mansura was noted as a
Druse village in the Esh-Shagur district, located between
Safad,
Acca and
Tiberias.[6][7]
In 1875
Victor Guérin found the village to have 200 Druse inhabitants.[8] In 1881, the
PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described El Mansurah as "A stone-built village, situated on the slope of the hill, containing about 150
Moslems; extensive
olive-groves to the south; water from springs and
cisterns."[9]
British Mandate era
In the
1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the
British Mandate authorities,
Mughar wa Mansura had a total population of 1377. Of these, 265 were Muslim, 676 Druze and 436 Christians.[10] All the Christians were Roman Catholic.[11] In the
1931 census the population of Al-Mansura, together with nearby
Maghar, was a total of 1733, in 373 inhabited houses. Of these, 307 were Muslim, 549 Christians, and 877 Druze.[12]
In the
1945 statistics the population of Al-Mansura, together with nearby
Maghar, was 2,140;[2] 90 Muslims, 800 Christians and 1,250 others.[13] They had 55,583
dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.[2] 7,864 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 18,352 for cereals,[3][14] while 55 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[15]
Post 1948
In 1992, the village site was described: "The site is covered with debris and overgrown with cacti, olive trees and tall grass. Remains of walls are visible, with one door made of stone with an arched door. Another wall is perforated with its interior bars exposed, signs of having been blasted with dynamite."[3]
^Note that Rhode, 1979, p.
6Archived 2019-04-20 at the
Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied from the Safad-district was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9.
^Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, 2nd appendix, p.
133