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The Beersheba Subdistrict (; ) was one of the subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine. It was located in modern-day southern
(current localities in parentheses)
* Auja al-Hafir (
Israel
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. The city of Beersheba
Beersheba ( / ; ), officially Be'er-Sheva, is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", it is the centre of the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in Israel, the eighth-most p ...
was the capital. After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
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, 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
(current localities in parentheses)
* Auja al-Hafir (Nessana
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)
* Beersheba
Beersheba ( / ; ), officially Be'er-Sheva, is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", it is the centre of the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in Israel, the eighth-most p ...
* al-Imara ( Ofakim, Urim)
* al-Jammama ( Ruhama)
* al-Khalasa
* Umm al-Rashrash (Eilat
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)
* Khirbat Futais ''( Al-Qadirat clan of Al-Tiyaha tribe)'' ( Ofakim)
References
Subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine States and territories established in 1920 {{Mandate-Palestine-stub