Al-Khayma
Al-Khayma | |
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Al-Khayma | |
Arabic | الخيمة |
Name meaning | The Tent |
Subdistrict | Ramle |
Coordinates | 31°45′40.9″N 34°49′39.1″E / 31.761361°N 34.827528°ECoordinates: 31°45′40.9″N 34°49′39.1″E / 31.761361°N 34.827528°E |
Palestine grid | 133/130 |
Population | 190[1] (1945) |
Date of depopulation | Not known[2] |
Al-Khayma (Arabic: الخيمة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. 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.[1]
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, (NB: not in archive.org), cited in Khalidi, 1992, p. 388 )
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- Guérin, Victor (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. 1: Judee, pt. 2. (p. 88 : El-Khimeh )
- 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. (El Kheimeh: the tent: p. 268 )
External links
- Welcome To al-Khayma
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 16: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- al-Khayma, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
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