Khirbat Lid
Lid was a Palestinian village in the Haifa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on April 9, 1948. It was located 32 km southeast of Haifa.
Lid خربة لِد العوادين Khirbet Lid al Awadin[1] | |
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Village | |
| Etymology: From personal name[2] | |
  Lid | |
| Coordinates: 32°36′49″N 35°13′27″E | |
| Palestine grid | 171/224 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Haifa |
| Date of depopulation | Not known[1] |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 640[3][4] |
| Current Localities | HaYogev[5] |
History
The Khirbat al-Manatir contained artifacts from the Byzantine period.[5]
Ottoman era
In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found at Ludd "traces of ruins, with a pillar-shaft near a spring."[6]
Gottlieb Schumacher, as part of surveying for the construction of the Jezreel Valley railway, noted in 1900 that Ludd was a “flourishing village”, consisting of 46 huts and 200 inhabitants, built up by the Bedouin of the Merj.[7]
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the tribal area of Al Awadein had a population 402 Muslims,[8] increasing in the 1931 census to 451 Muslim inhabitants, in a total of 87 houses.[9]
In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 640 Muslims,[3] and the total land area was 13,572 dunams.[4] Of the land, 103 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 13,063 for cereals,[10] while 52 dunams were built-up (urban) areas.[11]
1948 and aftermath
Following the war the area was incorporated into the State of Israel. The moshav of HaYogev was established in 1949, west of the village site and partly on village land.[5]
In 1992 the village site was described: "Piles of stones, scattered across the ground near several large eucalyptus and olive trees, are all that remain of the village. There is a newly-built structure over the village well."[5]
References
- Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #385. Gives cause of depopulation and date as "Not known"
- Palmer, 1881, p. 151
- Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 14
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 48
- Khalidi, 1992, p. 174
- Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 66
- Schumacher, 1900, p. 358
- Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Haifa, p. 35
- Mills, 1932, p. 94
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 91
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 141
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. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- 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.
- Schumacher, G. (1900). "Reports from Galilee". Quarterly statement - Palestine Exploration Fund. 32: 355–360.
External links
- Welcome To Lid, Khirbat
- Khirbet Lid (al-'Awwadin), Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Lid, khirbat, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
