District of Ramla - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The District of Ramle was an administrative sub-district, a division of the Lydda

Lod

Lod is a city located on the Sharon Plain southeast of Tel Aviv in the Center District of Israel. At the end of 2010, it had a population of 70,000, roughly 75 percent Jewish and 25 percent Arab.The name is derived from the Biblical city of Lod...

district

Districts of the British Mandate of Palestine

During the period of British rule over Palestine, 1918–1948, the territory of the British Mandate for Palestine was divided into administrative regions known as districts, divisions, or sub-districts. The number of parts and the boundaries between them were adjusted repeatedly...

of the British Mandate of Palestine. The sub-district's main city was Ramle. Its total population in 1944 was estimated at 123,490, of which 88,560 were Muslims; 29,420 were Jews; and 5,500 were Christians. A number of Palestinian Arab villages in the district were depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War

1948 Palestine war

The 1948 Palestine war refers to the events in the British Mandate of Palestine between the United Nations vote on the partition plan on November 30, 1947, to the end of the first Arab-Israeli war on July 20, 1949.The war is divided into two phases:...

, both by Jewish forces prior to the Israeli declaration of independence and after by Israeli forces. Following the war the area that had made up the District of Ramla became a part of Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

's Center District

Center District (Israel)

The Central District of Israel is one of six administrative districts, including most of the Sharon region. The district capital is Ramla. It is further divided into 4 sub-districts: Petah Tikva, Ramla, Sharon and Rehovot. The district's largest city is Rishon LeZion. Its population as of 2008 was...

Depopulated settlements

Abu al-Fadl Abu Shusha

Abu Shusha

Abu Shusha was an Arab village in Palestine, 8 km southeast of Ramle which was depopulated in 1948.Abu Shusha was located on the slope of Tel Jazar, which is commonly identified with the ancient city of Gezer....

Ajanjul

Ajanjul was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine. The Abu Ghosh family took up residence in Ajanjul in the 18th century...

Aqir

Aqir was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramle located 9 km southwest of Ramla and 1 km north of Wadi al-Nasufiyya .-History:...

Barfiliya

Barfiliya was a Palestinian Arab village located east of Ramla that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Located on a tell, excavations conducted there by Israeli archaeologists beginning in 1995 found artifacts dating back to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period .Barfiliya lay on a...

al-Barriyya

Al-Barriyya

Al-Barriyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 10, 1948 as part of Operation Dani. It was located 5.5 km southeast of Ramla on the eastern bank of Wadi al-Barriyya....

Bashshit

Bashshit was a Palestinian Arab village located southwest of Ramla about half a mile from Wadi Bashshit. Archaeological artifacts from the village attest to habitation in the Early Islamic period and 12th and 13th centuries CE...

Bayt Far, Khirbat

Bayt Far, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 7, 1948. It was located 14 km south of Ramla.In 1945 it had a population of 300....

Bayt Jiz

Bayt Jiz was a Palestinian Arab village situated on undulating land in the western foothills of the Jerusalem heights, southwest of Ramla. In 1945, it had a population of 550...

Bayt Nabala

Bayt Nabala or Beit Nabala was a Palestinian Arab village in the district of Ramla in Mandatory Palestine that was destroyed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The village was in the territory allotted to the Arab state under the 1947 UN Partition Plan...

Bayt Shanna

Bayt Shanna was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 15, 1948, during the second stage of Operation Dani...

Bayt Susin

Bayt Susin was a Palestinian Arab village in Mandatory Palestine, located southeast of Ramla. In 1945, it had 210 inhabitants. The village was depopulated during the 1948 war by the Israeli 7th Brigade.-Geography:...

Bir Ma'in

Bir Ma'in was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 15, 1948 during the second phase of Operation Danny by the First and Second Battalions of the Yiftach Brigade. It was located 14 km east of Ramla. The village was...

Bir Salim

Bir Salim was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 9, 1948 by the Givati Brigade. It was located 4 km west of Ramla.The population in 1945 was 410....

al-Burj

Al-Burj, Ramla

Al-Burj was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 15, 1948 under the second phase of Operation Dani. It was located 14 km east of Ramla. The village was defended by the Jordanian Army but was destroyed by Israelis with...

al-Buwayra, Khirbat

Al-Buwayra, Khirbat

Al-Buwayra, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 15, 1948 under the second phase of Operation Dani...

Daniyal

Daniyal was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 10, 1948 by the Yiftach Brigade under the first phase of Operation Dani. It was located 5 km east of Ramla and south-east of Lydda.In 1945 it had a population of 410...

Dayr Abu Salama

Dayr Abu Salama was a small Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 13, 1948 in the first phase of Operation Dani.It was located 8 km northeast of Ramla....

Dayr Ayyub

Dayr Ayyub was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 6, 1948 by the Givati and Sheva' brigades of Operation Nachshon. It was located 17.5 km southeast of Ramla, situated close to Bab al-Wad...

Dayr Muhaysin

Dayr Muhaysin was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla located 12 km southeast of Ramla and 4 km west of Latrun. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 6, 1948 during Operation Nachshon....

Dayr Tarif

Dayr Tarif was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla.The Romans referred to Dayr Tarif as Bethariph. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 10, 1948 by the Ninth Commando Battalion of the Armored Brigade of Operation Dani...

al-Duhayriyya, Khirbat

Al-Duhayriyya, Khirbat

Al-Duhayriyya, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 10, 1948 by the Givati Brigade under the first phase of Operation Dani. It was located 6 km northeast of Ramla....

al-Haditha

Al-Haditha

Al-Haditha was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was located 8 km northeast of Ramla, situated on the west bank of Wadi al-Natuf....

Idnibba

Idnibba was a Palestinian village, located at latitude 31.7426937N and longitude 34.8561001,E in the southern part of Ramla district. It was depopulated in 1948, at which time its population was 568, and its lands are now used by Kfar Menahem.-History:...

Innaba

Innaba was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 10, 1948 by the Yiftach and Eighth brigades of Operation Dani. It was located 7 km east of Ramla....

Jilya

Jilya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. The Romans referred to it as Jilya by Galla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War by the Givati Brigade of the first stage of Operation Dani on July 9, 1948. It was located 17 km south of Ramla.A 1596 census revealed...

Jimzu

Jimzu also known as Gimzo, , was a Palestinian village, located three miles southeast of Lydda. Under the 1947 UN Partition Plan of British Mandate Palestine, Jimzu was to form part of the proposed Arab state...

Kharruba

Kharruba was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 12, 1948 by the Yiftach Brigade. It was located 8 km east of Ramla. Kharruba was completely destroyed soon after occupation, and only rubble was left behind.In 1945 the...

al-Khayma

Al-Khayma

Al-Khayma was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 9, 1948 by the Givati Brigade of Operation An-Far. It was located 18.5 km south of Ramla.In 1945 it had a population of 190....

Khulda

Khulda was a Palestinian Arab village located south of Ramla in the Mandatory Palestine. Known as Huldre to the Crusaders, it is also mentioned in documents dating to the periods of Mamluk, Ottoman, and Mandatory rule over Palestine. During the 1948 war, the village was depopulated as part of...

al-Kunayyisa

Al-Kunayyisa

Al-Kunayyisa was a small Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 10, 1948 under the first stage of Operation Dani.It was located 12 km southeast of Ramla....

al-Latrun Lydda al-Maghar

Al-Maghar

al-Maghar was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated by the Givati Brigade during Operation Barak on 18 May 1948. It was located 12 km southwest of Ramla, situated north of Wadi al-Maghar....

Majdal Yaba

Majdal Yaba was a Palestinian Arab village located northeast of Ramla and east of Jaffa. A walled city stood at the same site as early as 3000 BCE, and Majdal Yaba is first mentioned by the name Aphek in Egyptian Execration texts dating to the 19th century BCE...

al-Mansura

Al-Mansura, Ramla

Al-Mansura was a small Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 20, 1948 under Operation Barak.It was located 10 km south of Ramla....

al-Mukhayzin

Al-Mukhayzin

Al-Mukhayzin was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 20, 1948 by the Givati Brigade of Operation Har'el. It was located 10 km southwest of Ramla....

al-Muzayri'a

Al-Muzayri'a

-Location:Al-Muzayri'a was located north-northeast of al-Ramla, on limestone hill, overlooking the coastal plain. A wadi ran along its southern part, and separated it from the village of Qula. The village was about 1 km east of the al-Ramla-Haifa railway line. It was also located to the east...

al-Na'ani

Al-Na'ani

Al-Na'ani was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramle. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 14, 1948 by the Givati Brigade of Operation Barak. It was located 6 km south of Ramle....

an-Nabi RubinQatra

Qatra

Qatra was a Palestinian Arab village located southwest of the city of Ramla and west of Jerusalem, some above sea level.- History :Qatra was a Canaanite center of political and economic authority that along with 30 other urban sites in regions bordering the Mediterranean sea, entered a period...

Qazaza

Qazaza was a Palestinian village, located south of Ramla. It was depopulated in 1948.-History:A European traveler reported that he passed Qazaza in the 1860s on his way to examine a nearby tell. The villagers of Qazaza, who were predominantly Muslim, maintained a village mosque and some owned...

al-Qubab

Al-Qubab

Al-Qubab was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated in July 1948 during the Operation Dani led by the Yiftach Brigade.-History:...

al-Qubayba

Al-Qubayba, Ramla

Al-Qubayba was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on May 27, 1948, by the Givati Brigade as part of the Second stage of Operation Barak. It was located 10.5 km southeast of Ramla near the Rubin River which provide the...

Qula

Qula was a Palestinian village in the British Mandate District of Ramla 15 km northeast of Ramla, depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.Hasan Salama and his son Ali Hassan Salameh were from Qula.-History:...

Ramla

Ramla , is a city in central Israel. The city is predominantly Jewish with a significant Arab minority. Ramla was founded circa 705–715 AD by the Umayyad Caliph Suleiman ibn Abed al-Malik after the Arab conquest of the region...

Sajad

Sajad was a Palestinian village, located sixteen kilometers south of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.-History:The village of Sajad was the site of a railway station built by the French in Ottoman era Palestine. In August 1892 the Jaffa–Jerusalem railway service was...

Salbit

Salbit was a Palestinian Arab village located southeast of al-Ramla. It has been identified with the biblical town of Shaalabbin which was located northwest of biblical Aijalon . Salbit was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war after a military assault by Israeli forces...

Sarafand al-Amar

Sarafand al-Amar was a Palestinian Arab village situated on the coastal plain of Palestine, about northwest of Ramla. It had a population of 1,950 in 1945 and a land area of 13,267 dunams...

Sarafand al-Kharab

Sarafand al-Kharab ) was a Palestinian Arab village located above sea level, west of al-Ramla, in the area that is today north-east of Ness Ziona.-History:...

Saydun

Saydun was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 6, 1948 under Operation Nachshon. It was located 9 km south of Ramla on the east bank of Wadi Saydun....

Shahma

Shahma was a Palestinian Arab village located southwest of Ramla. Depopulated on the eve of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the village lands today form part of a fenced in area used by the Israeli Air Force.-Location:...

Shilta

Shilta was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 18, 1948 by the First Battalion of the Yiftach Brigade of Operation Dani. It was located 15 km east of Ramla....

al-Tina

Al-Tina

Al-Tina was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 8, 1948 by the Givati Brigade under Operation An-Far. It was located 20.5 km south of Ramla....

al-Tira

Al-Tira (Ramla)

Al-Tira was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 10, 1948 by the Alexandroni and Armored brigades under Operation Dani. It was located 12 km northeast of Ramla...

Umm Kalkha

Umm Kalkha was a small Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 7, 1948 under Operation Nachshon. It was located 12.5 km south of Ramla, situated on the northern banks of Wadi al-Sarar.In 1945 it had a...

Wadi Hunayn

Wadi Hunayn was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was located 9 km west of Ramla. According to a local tradition, it was named after the Yemeni home of the Qada'a tribe who settled here in the early Islamic period....

Yibna

Yibna was a Palestinian village of 5,420 inhabitants, located 15 kilometers southwest of Ramla. Yibna was occupied by Israeli forces on June 4, 1948, and was depopulated during the military assault and expulsion.-History:...

Zakariyya, Khirbat

Zakariyya, Khirbat was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 12, 1948 under the second stage of Operation Dani. It was located 9 km east of Ramla. Khirbat Zakariyya was completely destroyed with the exception of its...

Zarnuqa

Zarnuqa was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla.In 1924, the land was sold by Shukri brothers, and Abd al-Rahman al-Taji al-Farouqi....

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