Dayr Muhaysin
Dayr Muhaysin | |
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Dayr Muhaysin | |
Subdistrict | Ramle |
Coordinates | 31°49′37.30″N 34°55′55.95″E / 31.8270278°N 34.9322083°ECoordinates: 31°49′37.30″N 34°55′55.95″E / 31.8270278°N 34.9322083°E |
Palestine grid | 143/137 |
Population | 460 (1945) |
Date of depopulation | April 6, 1948[1] |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Current localities | Beqoa' |
Dayr Muhaysin was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, located 12 km southeast of Ramla and 4 km west of Latrun. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 6, 1948 during Operation Nachshon.
In 1945, the village had a population of 460.
References
- ↑ Morris, 2004, p.xx, village #327. Also gives cause for depopulation
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. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (pp. 11, 274 )
- Guérin, Victor (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. 1: Judee, pt. 2. (pp. 32-33 )
- 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.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas (PDF). 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.
- Socin, A. (1879). "Alphabetisches Verzeichniss von Ortschaften des Paschalik Jerusalem". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 2: 135–163. (possibly p. 152, according to author )
External links
- Welcome To Dayr Muhaysin
- Dayr Muhaysin, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
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