Al-Mansura, Ramle
See El Mansurah (disambiguation) for other sites with similar names.
Village in Ramle, Mandatory Palestine
Al-Mansura was a small Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict , located 10 km south of Ramla . It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 20, 1948, under Operation Barak .
History
In 1838, it was noted as a small Muslim village in the Er-Ramleh District.[ 5] [ 6]
In 1863, Victor Guérin passed by, and noted a spring by the village.[ 7]
In 1882, the PEF 's Survey of Western Palestine noted it as an adobe village of "moderate size."[ 8]
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine , conducted by the British Mandate authorities , Mansura had a population of 31, all Muslims ,[ 9] increasing in the 1931 census to 61, still all Muslims, in a total of 14 houses.[ 10]
In the 1945 statistics , the village had a population of 90, all Muslim,[ 2] and the total land area was 2,328 dunums .[ 3] Of this, Arabs used 2,113 dunums for cereals,[ 11] while 3 dunams were classified as built-up urban areas.[ 12]
al-Mansura 1930 1:20,000
al-Mansura 1945 1:250,000
1948, aftermath
Al-Mansura was depopulated on April 20, 1948, after a military assault.[ 4] [ 13] [ 14]
In 1992 it was described: "The site is planted with sycamore trees and there are also cactuses growing on it. The surrounding land is cultivated by the settlers of Mazkeret Batya , this settlement was founded [] on land belonging to Aqir ."[ 15]
References
^ Palmer, 1881, pp. 9 , 272
^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 30
^ a b c Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 67
^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xix , village #260. Also gives cause of depopulation.
^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 120
^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 21
^ Guérin, 1869, pp. 34 -35
^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 408
^ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramleh, p. 21
^ Mills, 1932, p. 21
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 116
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 166
^ Morris, 2004, p. 125 note #455, p. 157
^ Morris, 2004, p. 240 note #581, p. 295
^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 398
Bibliography
Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 . Government of Palestine.
Conder, C.R. ; Kitchener, H.H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology . Vol. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund .
Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945 . Government of Palestine.
Guérin, V. (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 1: Judee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine . Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center. Archived from the original on 2018-12-08. Retrieved 2009-08-18 .
Khalidi, W. (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 .
Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas . Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
Morris, B. (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, E. ; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838 . Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster .
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