Rantiya
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| Arabic | رنتيّة |
| Also Spelled | Rantieh, Rantia, Rentie |
| Subdistrict | Jaffa |
| Coordinates | 32°2′40″N 34°55′17″E / 32.04444°N 34.92139°ECoordinates: 32°2′40″N 34°55′17″E / 32.04444°N 34.92139°E |
| Population | 590[1] (1945) |
| Area | 4,389[1] dunams |
| Date of depopulation | 10 July 1948[2] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Mazor, Nofekh, Rinatia[3] |
Rantiya (Arabic: رنتيّة, known to the Romans as Rantia and to the Crusaders as Rentie) was a Palestinian village, located 16 kilometers east of Jaffa. During the British Mandate in Palestine, it had a population of approximately 600 inhabitants.[4]
Those inhabitants became refugees after a 10 July 1948 assault by Israeli forces from the Palmach's Eighth Armored Brigade and the Third Infantry Battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.[4]
Of the over 100 houses that made up the village, only three remain standing today.[4] The Jewish localities of Mazor, Nofekh, and Rinatia are located on Rantiya's former lands.[4]
History
During the Crusader era, Rentie, along with other coastal towns such as Deirelcobebe and Semsem were the site of Hospitaller castles of the Sovereign Order of the Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta.[5]
During early Ottoman rule in Palestine, the revenues of the village of Rantiya were in 1557 designated for the new waqf of Hasseki Sultan Imaret in Jerusalem, established by Hasseki Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana), the wife of Suleiman the Magnificent.[6] In 1596, Rantiya was a village in the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Ramla ( liwa' ("district") of Gaza), with a population of 132. Villagers paid taxes to the authorities for the crops that they cultivated, which included wheat, barley, fruit, and sesame as well as on other types of property, such as goats and beehives.[7]
In the late nineteenth century, Rantiya was described as a small village built of adobe bricks. At that time a main road passed right next to it.[8]
References in contemporary culture
In Soraida: A Woman of Palestine, the main character explains that she named her daughter and son, Rantia and Aram, after Palestinian villages to preserve the memory of the homeland.[9][10]
See also
- List of Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
- List of villages depopulated during the Arab-Israeli conflict
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hadawi, 1970, p.53
- ↑ Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #212. Also gives cause of depopulation. According to Morris the village had also been depopulated the 28 April 1948, also at that time by Military assault.
- ↑ Morris, 2004, p. xxii, settlement #97, in 1949
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Welcome to Rantiya". Palestine Remembered. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
- ↑ Ross, KL, 2002, The Periphery of Francia: Outremer - Kings of Jerusalem and Cyprus, Counts of Edessa, Princes of Antioch, Counts of Tripoli, Kings of Thessalonica, Dukes of Athens, Princes of Achaea, and the Grand Masters of the Military Monastic Orders The Proceedings of the Friesian School, Fourth Series
- ↑ Singer, 2002, p.50
- ↑ Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter and Kamal Abdulfattah (1977), Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. p. 155. Quoted in Khalidi 1992, p. 252
- ↑ Conder and Kitchener: SWP II, 1882, p.253, Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 252
- ↑ Elia, Nada (Fall 2006). "This Is Not Living, and: Women in Struggle, and: Soraida, A Woman of Palestine (review)". Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 2 (3): 125–130. doi:10.1353/jmw.2006.0028.
- ↑ "Soraida: A Woman of Palestine". NFB.ca. Retrieved 2009-01-14.
Bibliography
- 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.
- Guérin, M. V. (1875): Description Géographique, Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. Samarie, 2 pt. ("Seconde partie -Samarie")("Tome II") p. 391 ff.
- 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. Washington DC: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- Morris, Benny (2004): The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-00967-7
- Singer, A. (2002). Constructing Ottoman Beneficence: An Imperial Soup Kitchen in Jerusalem. Albany: State of New York Press.