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Beit Far
Khirbat Bayt Far was a Palestinians, Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine, Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, located 14 km south of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 7, 1948. History Ceramics from the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine era have been found here. Ottoman era In 1838, in the late Ottoman Empire, Ottoman era, it was noted as a village in ruins.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p21/ref>Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p.120/ref> In 1863 Victor Guérin noted "important ruins" here. "There once stood a hamlet, the ruins of which are scattered over a feeble mound amid the bushes and tall grass." In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund, PEF's ''PEF Survey of Palestine, Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) found here: "Walls and foundations, apparently modern, with caves and a spring." British Mandate era In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the Mandatory Palestine, Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. During the First World War (1914–1918), an Arab uprising against Ottoman rule and the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force under General Edmund Allenby drove the Ottoman Turks out of the Levant during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign. The United Kingdom had agreed in the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence that it would honour Arab independence if the Arabs revolted against the Ottoman Turks, but the two sides had different interpretations of this agreement, and in the end, the United Kingdom and France divided the area under the Sykes–Picot Agreementan act of betrayal in the eyes of the Arabs. Further complicating the issue was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
