Saydun

Saydun
Saydun
Arabic صيدون
Name meaning from Zidon[1]
Subdistrict Ramle
Coordinates 31°50′28″N 34°54′17″E / 31.84111°N 34.90472°E / 31.84111; 34.90472Coordinates: 31°50′28″N 34°54′17″E / 31.84111°N 34.90472°E / 31.84111; 34.90472
Palestine grid 141/138
Population 210[2][3] (1945)
Date of depopulation not known[4]

Saydun (Arabic: صيدون‎) was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 6, 1948 during Operation Nachshon. It was located 9 km south of Ramla on the east bank of Wadi Saydun.

History

In 1838, it was noted as a large village[5] whose inhabitants were Muslim.[6]

In 1863 Victor Guérin found it to have about 200 inhabitants,[7] while an Ottoman village list from about 1870 counted 35 houses and a population of 148, though the population count included men, only.[8][9]

In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described the place as: "a small village of the same class" (as Shahma).[10]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Saidum had a population of 124 inhabitants, all Muslims,[11] increasing in the 1931 census to 174, still all Muslims, in a total of 35 houses.[12]

In the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 210 Muslims[2] with a total of 7,487 dunums of land.[3] 49 dunums of land was used for plantations and irrigable land, 5,247 dunums were used for cereals,[13] while 15 dunams were classified as built-up public areas.[14]

Post 1948

In 1992 the village site was described: "Cactuses and numerous grapevines grow on the site. Only one stone house remains; it has a flat roof and a round-arched door and is used for storage. The surrounding land are used for agriculture by Israelis."[15]

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 274
  2. 1 2 Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 30
  3. 1 2 Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 68
  4. ↑ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #259. Gives both date and cause of depopulation as "Not known"
  5. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 21
  6. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 120
  7. ↑ Guérin, 1869 p. 33
  8. ↑ Socin, 1879, p. 159
  9. ↑ Hartmann, 1883, p. 140 noted 30 houses
  10. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 408
  11. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramleh, p. 21
  12. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 23.
  13. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 117
  14. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 167
  15. ↑ Khalidi, 1992, p. 414

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. 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). 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.
  • Hartmann, M. (1883). "Die Ortschaftenliste des Liwa Jerusalem in dem türkischen Staatskalender für Syrien auf das Jahr 1288 der Flucht (1871)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 6: 102–149.
  • 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. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
  • Socin, A. (1879). "Alphabetisches Verzeichniss von Ortschaften des Paschalik Jerusalem". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 2: 135–163.
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