The Beersheba Subdistrict ( ar, قضاء بئر السبع, he, נפת באר שבע) was one of the

subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine The Districts and Sub-districts of Mandatory Palestine formed the first and second levels of administrative division and existed through the whole era of Mandatory Palestine, namely from 1920 to 1948. The number and territorial extent of the dist ...

. It was located in modern-day southern

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. The city of

Beersheba Beersheba or Beer Sheva, officially Be'er-Sheva ( he, בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע, ''Bəʾēr Ševaʿ'', ; ar, بئر السبع, Biʾr as-Sabʿ, Well of the Oath or Well of the Seven), is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. ...

was the capital. After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the subdistrict largely transformed into the Beersheba Subdistrict of Israel. The vast majority of the population, approximately 90%, consisted of nomadic Palestinian Bedouins.

Depopulated towns and villages

1945 Palestine Mandate Village Statistics population page for Sub-District of Beersheba

(current localities in parentheses) * Auja al-Hafir (

Nessana Nessana, Modern Hebrew name Nizzana, also spelled Nitzana ( he, ניצנה), is an ancient Nabataean city located in the southwest Negev desert in Israel close to the Egyptian border. It started by being a caravan station on the ancient Incense Ro ...

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al-Imara al-Imara ( ar, العمارة), was a Palestinian village, located in the northern Negev Desert northwest of Beersheba. History In the British mandate period the village was classified as a hamlet by the ''Palestine Index Gazetteer''.Khalidi, 1 ...

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Ofakim Ofakim ( he, אֳפָקִים ''ʾŎfāqīm'', or אוֹפָקִים ''ʾŌfāqīm'', ''lit.'' "horizons") is a city in the Southern District of Israel, 20 kilometers (12.4 mi) west of Beersheba. It achieved municipal status in 1955. I ...

, Urim) *

al-Jammama Al-Jammama ( ar, الجمامه) was a Palestinian Arab village located in the Negev desert 30 km north west of the city of Beersheba. Its settled population was recorded as six in the 1931 census. History The village was an archeological s ...

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Ruhama Ruhama ( he, רֻחָמָה) is a kibbutz in the Negev desert in southern Israel. The original settlement, established in 1911, is considered the first modern Jewish settlement in the Negev. Located around ten kilometres east of Sderot and surro ...

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al-Khalasa Al-Khalasa ( ar, الخلصة, al-Khalasah; he, אל-ח'אלצה, ''al-Khalatsah''), was a Palestinian village, located 23 kilometers southwest of the town of Beersheba. The village stood at the site of an ancient town from the Nabatean, Roman, By ...

* Umm al-Rashrash ( Eilat) * Khirbat Futais ''( Al-Qadirat clan of Al-Tiyaha tribe)'' (

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References

Subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine States and territories established in 1920 {{Mandate-Palestine-stub