Al-Mansura, Ramle
- See El Mansurah (disambiguation) for other sites with similar names.
Al-Mansura | |
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Al-Mansura | |
Name meaning | Building[1] |
Subdistrict | Ramle |
Coordinates | 31°50′16.35″N 34°51′26.05″E / 31.8378750°N 34.8572361°ECoordinates: 31°50′16.35″N 34°51′26.05″E / 31.8378750°N 34.8572361°E |
Palestine grid | 136/138 |
Population | 90 (1945) |
Date of depopulation | April 20, 1948[2] |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Al-Mansura was a small Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict, located 10 km south of Ramla. In 1945, it had a population of 90. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 20, 1948 under Operation Barak.
References
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. p. 408 not in archive
- Guérin, Victor (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 1: Judee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (pp. 34-35)
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5. (p. 397)
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
- Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Robinson, Edward; Smith, Eli (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. (p. 21)
External links
- Welcome To al-Mansura
- SWP map XVI, IAA
- SWP map 16, Wikimedia commons
- al-Mansura, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
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