Saydun ( ar, صيدون) was a

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

village in the Ramle Subdistrict of

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 ...

. 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

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on the east bank of Wadi Saydun.

History

In 1838, it was noted as a large village whose inhabitants were Muslim. In 1863

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found it to have about 200 inhabitants, He further noted: "Sitting on a low hill, [] the houses are built of adobe. Lacking wood and coal, the Arabs of this locality, as well as many others in Palestine, make fire with sun-dried cow dung in the shape of rounded clods. They feed on water at a

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of modern date, because the ancient well is dry." "This village [] must certainly succeed an ancient village". An Ottoman Empire, Ottoman village list from about 1870 counted 35 houses and a population of 148, though the population count included men, only. In 1882, the PEF's ''

Survey of Western Palestine The PEF Survey of Palestine was a series of surveys carried out by the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) between 1872 and 1877 for the Survey of Western Palestine and in 1880 for the Survey of Eastern Palestine. The survey was carried out after the ...

'' described the place as: "a small village of the same class" (as Shahma).

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, ''Saidum'' had a population of 124 inhabitants, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramleh, p
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/ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 174, still all Muslims, in a total of 35 houses.Mills, 1932, p
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In the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 210 Muslims with a total of 7,487

dunums A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; tr, dönüm; he, דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount ...

of land. 49 dunums of land was used for plantations and irrigable land, 5,247 dunums were used for cereals, while 15 dunams were classified as built-up public areas. Khulda 1942

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."Khalidi, 1992, p. 414

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{{Authority control Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War District of Ramla