Mandatory Palestine 1945 subdistricts and districts

The Ramle Subdistrict 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 dis ...

. It was part of Lydda District of the British Mandate of Palestine. The sub-district's main city was Ramle. Its total population in 1944 was estimated at 123,490, of which 88,560 were Muslims; 29,420 were Jews; and 5,500 were Christians.A Survey of Palestine: Prepared in December 1945 and January 1946 for the Information of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, Volume I, Table 8c, p. 152, J. V. W. Shaw (Editor) A number of Palestinian Arab villages in the subdistrict were ethnically cleansed during the

Nakba The Nakba () is the ethnic cleansing; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; of Palestinian Arabs through their violent displacement and dispossession of land, property, and belongings, along with the destruction of their s ...

, both by Zionist forces prior to the Israeli declaration of independence and after by Israeli forces. Following the war the area that had made up Ramla Subdistrict became a part of

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

's Central District, being mostly subdivided between a newly created

Ramla Subdistrict The Ramla subdistrict is one of Israel's subdistricts in the Central District. There are three principal cities in the subdistrict: Ramla, Lod, and Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut. History The subdistrict is composed mostly of the eastern half of wha ...

and Rehovot Subdistrict.

Ethnically cleansed and villages

* Abu al-Fadl *

Abu Shusha Abu Shusha () was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, located 8 km southeast of Ramle. It was ethnically cleansed in May 1948. Abu Shusha was located on the slope of Tell Jezer/Tell el-Jazari, whi ...

* Ajanjul * Aqir * Barfiliya * al-Barriyya *

Bashshit Bashshayt (), also Beshshayt, was an Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine, Ramle Subdistrict, located southwest of Ramla about half a mile from wadi Bashshit. Archaeological artifacts from the village attest to habitation ...

Khirbat Bayt Far Khirbat Bayt Far was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, located 14 km south of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 7, 1948. History Ceramics from the Byza ...

* Bayt Jiz * Bayt Nabala * Bayt Shanna * Bayt Susin * Bir Ma'in * Bir Salim * al-Burj * Khirbat al-Buwayra * Daniyal *

Dayr Abu Salama Dayr Abu Salama (Arabic: دير ابو سلامة) was a small Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict, located 8 km northeast of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 13, 1948, in the first phase of ...

* Dayr Ayyub * Dayr Muhaysin * Dayr Tarif * Khirbat al-Duhayriyya * al-Haditha * Idnibba *

Innaba 'Innaba (), also spelled 'Annaba, was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 10, 1948 by the Yiftach and Eighth Brigades of Operation Dani. It was loc ...

* Jilya * Jimzu * Kharruba *

al-Khayma Al-Khayma () was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 9, 1948, by the Givati Brigade of Operation An-Far. It was located 18.5 km south o ...

* Khulda * al-Kunayyisa * Latrun * Lydda * al-Maghar *

Majdal Yaba Majdal Yaba () was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict, northeast of Ramla and east of Jaffa. A walled Jewish settlement name Migdal Aphek (; Ancient Greek: ''Αφεχού πύργος'') stood at the same site as early as th ...

* al-Mansura * al-Mukhayzin * al-Muzayri'a * al-Na'ani * Nabi Rubin *

Qatra Qatra () was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict, located southwest of the city of Ramla and west of Jerusalem, some above sea level.Bromiley, 1994, pp. 5-6. It was depopulated in May 1948. History Qatra was a Canaanite cente ...

* Qazaza * al-Qubab * al-Qubayba * Qula * Ramle * Sajad * Salbit *

Sarafand al-Amar Sarafand al-Ammar () was a Palestinian people, Palestinian Arab village situated on the coastal plain of Palestine (region), Palestine, about northwest of Ramla. It had a population of 1,950 in 1945 and a land area of 13,267 dunams. In December ...

* Sarafand al-Kharab * Saydun * Shahma * Shilta *

al-Tina Al-Tina, or Khirbet et-Tineh was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. The village was located between the Shfela and southern Israeli coastal plain. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli Wa ...

* al-Tira * Umm Kalkha * Wadi Hunayn *

Yibna Yibna (; ''Jabneh'' or ''Jabneel'' in Biblical times; ''Jamnia'' in Roman empire, Roman times; ''Lordship of Ibelin, Ibelin'' to the Crusades, Crusaders), or Tel Yavne, is an archaeological site and List of villages depopulated during the Arab– ...

* Khirbat Zakariyya *

Zarnuqa Zarnuqa (), also Zarnuga,Reuter, 2004, pp956 was a Palestinian people, Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine, Ramle Subdistrict. It was depopulated on 27–28 May 1948 during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Location ...

References

Subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine {{Mandate-Palestine-stub