:''See El Mansurah (disambiguation) for other sites with similar names.'' Al-Mansura was a small Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict, located 10 km south of

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. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 20, 1948, under Operation Barak.

History

In 1838, it was noted as a small

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village in the Er-Ramleh District.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p.
120
/ref> In 1863,

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passed by, and noted a spring by the village. In 1882, the PEF's '' Survey of Western Palestine'' noted it as an

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village of "moderate size."

British Mandate era

In the

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, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Mansura had a population of 31, all

s,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramleh, p
21
/ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 61, still all Muslims, in a total of 14 houses.Mills, 1932, p
21
/ref> In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 90, all Muslim, and the total land area was 2,328 dunums. Of this, Arabs used 2,113 dunums for cereals, while 3 dunams were classified as built-up urban areas. Mansura 1930

1948, aftermath

Al-Mansura was depopulated on April 20, 1948, after a military assault.Morris, 2004, p
240
note #581, p
295
/ref> In 1992 it was described: "The site is planted with sycamore trees and there are also cactuses growing on it. The surrounding land is cultivated by the settlers of Mazkeret Batya, this settlement was founded [] on land belonging to Aqir."Khalidi, 1992, p. 398

References

Bibliography

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External links

Welcome To al-Mansuraal-Mansura (Ramla)
Zochrot *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 16:
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from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center {{Palestinian Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War District of Ramla