The Tulkarm Subdistrict was one of the
subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine. It was located around the city of
Tulkarm. After the
1948 Arab-Israeli War
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, the subdistrict disintegrated, the western part became part of the
Central District of
Israel and the eastern part, became a part of the
Jordanian annexation of the West Bank from 1948 to 1967). Most of the eastern part is today the
Tulkarm Governorate
The Tulkarm Governorate ( ar, محافظة طولكرم, Muḥāfaẓat Ṭūlkarm) is an administrative district and one of 16 Governorates of Palestine located in the north-western West Bank. The governorate's land area is 268 square kilometres ...
, part of the
State of Palestine
Palestine ( ar, فلسطين, Filasṭīn), Legal status of the State of Palestine, officially the State of Palestine ( ar, دولة فلسطين, Dawlat Filasṭīn, label=none), is a state (polity), state located in Western Asia. Officiall ...
.
Depopulated towns and villages
(current localities in parentheses)
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Khirbat Bayt Lid
Khirbat Bayt Lid ( ar, خربة بيت لد) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict. It was depopulated by its Arab inhabitants during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. History
In the 1860s, the Ottoman authorities granted the reside ...
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Nordia
Nordia ( he, נוֹרְדִיָּה) is a moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near Netanya and the HaSharon Junction, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lev HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of .
Hist ...
)
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Bayyarat Hannun
Bayyarat Hannun was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict in Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during "Operation Coastal Clearing" on March 31, 1948, in the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine. It was located 16 ...
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Fardisya
Fardisya was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the Tulkarm Subdistrict, south of Tulkarm.
It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 1, 1948, under Operation Coastal Clearing, and was mostly destroyed with the ...
(
Sha'ar Efraim
Sha'ar Efraim ( he, שַׁעַר אֶפְרַיִם, ''lit.'' Efraim Gate) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lev HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
The vil ...
on nearby lands)
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Ghabat Kafr Sur
Ghabat Kafr Sur was a Palestinian people, Palestinian village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on May 15, 1948, under Operation Coastal Clearing. It was located 16 km so ...
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Beit Yehoshua
Beit Yehoshua ( he, בֵּית יְהוֹשֻעַ, , House of Yehoshua) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain near Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of . The ...
,
Kfar Neter,
Tel Yitzhak)
*
al-Jalama (
Lahavot Chaviva
Lehavot Haviva ( he, לְהֲבוֹת חֲבִיבָה, , Haviva's Flames) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the eastern Sharon plain near the Green Line, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a popula ...
)
*
Kafr Saba (
Beyt Berl,
HaKramim (neighborhood in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut),
Neve Yamin)
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Khirbat al-Majdal (
Sde Yitzhak
Sde Yitzhak ( he, שְׂדֵה יִצְחָק, ''lit.'' Field of Yitzhak) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the eastern Sharon plain to the south-east of Hadera, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a po ...
)
*
al-Manshiyya (
Ahituv,
Ein HaHoresh,
Givat Haim)
*
Miska (
Mishmeret,
Sde Warburg
Sde Warburg ( he, שְׂדֵה וַרְבּוּרְג) is a moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located to the north of Kfar Saba, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
Before the ...
)
*
Qaqun
Qaqun ( ar, قاقون) was a Palestinian Arab village located northwest of the city of Tulkarm at the only entrance to Mount Nablus from the coastal Sharon plain.
Evidence of organized settlement in Qaqun dates back to the period of Assyr ...
(
Gan Yoshiya
Gan Yoshiya ( he, גַּן יֹאשִׁיָּה, lit. ''Josiah's Garden'') is a moshav in central Israel. Located near the Green Line in the Tulkarm area, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population ...
,
Haniel
Haniel ( he, חַנִּיאֵל, ''Ḥannīʾēl'', "God is my grace"; cop, ⲁⲛⲁⲛⲓⲏⲗ ''Ananiēl''; ar, عنيائيل, '), also known as Hananel, Anael, Hanael or Aniel, is an angel in Jewish lore and angelology, and is often i ...
,
HaMa'apil
HaMa'apil ( he, הַמַּעְפִּיל, ''lit.'' The illegal immigrant) is a kibbutz in central Israel. It is located near Ahituv within the jurisdiction of the Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
The communit ...
,
Olesh,
Ometz,
Yikon)
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Raml Zayta (
Sde Yitzhak
Sde Yitzhak ( he, שְׂדֵה יִצְחָק, ''lit.'' Field of Yitzhak) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the eastern Sharon plain to the south-east of Hadera, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a po ...
)
*
Tabsur (
Batzra,
Ra'anana suburbs)
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Umm Khalid
Umm Khalid ( ar, أم خالد), also called Mukhalid, was a Palestinian village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict, west of Tulkarm. It was an ancient site in the central coastline of what is now the city of Netanya, Israel.
History
Archaeological fi ...
(
Netanya
Netanya (also known as Natanya, he, נְתַנְיָה) is a city in the Northern Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa, between Poleg stream and Wingate I ...
suburbs)
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Wadi al-Hawarith
Wadi al-Hawarith ( ar, وادي الحوارث) was a Palestinian bedouin camping site in the Tulkarm Subdistrict. It was depopulated at the outbreak of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on March 15, 1948, following the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandato ...
(
Geulei Teiman,
Kfar Haroeh,
Kfar Vitkin)
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Wadi Qabbani
Wadi Qabbani ( ar, وادي قباني), also known as Khirbat ash Sheik Husein ( ar, خربة الشيخ حسين) was a Palestinian people, Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict. It was probably depopulated during the 1947–48 Civ ...
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Khirbat al-Zababida
Khirbat al-Zababida was a Palestinian people, Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on May 15, 1948. It was located southwest of Tulkarm, south of Wadi al-Faliq. Khirbat al-Zab ...
*
Khirbat Zalafa
Khirbat Zalafa ( ar, خربة زلفة) was a small Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict, located about northwest of Tulkarm. It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine war. It was occupied by Yishuv forces on April 15, 1948 as ...
(
Givat Oz)
Subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine
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