SeeEl Mansurah (disambiguation) for other sites with similar names. Village in Ramle, Mandatory Palestine
Al-Mansura was a smallPalestinian Arab village in theRamle Subdistrict , located 10 km south ofRamla . It was depopulated during the1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 20, 1948, underOperation Barak .
History In 1838, it was noted as a smallMuslim village in theEr-Ramleh District.[ 5] [ 6]
In 1863,Victor Guérin passed by, and noted a spring by the village.[ 7]
In 1882, thePEF 'sSurvey of Western Palestine adobe village of "moderate size."[ 8]
British Mandate era In the1922 census of Palestine , conducted by theBritish Mandate authorities , Mansura had a population of 31, allMuslims ,[ 9] 1931 census to 61, still all Muslims, in a total of 14 houses.[ 10]
In the1945 statistics , the village had a population of 90, all Muslim,[ 2] dunums .[ 3] [ 11] [ 12]
al-Mansura 1930 1:20,000 al-Mansura 1945 1:250,000
Al-Mansura was depopulated on April 20, 1948, after a military assault.[ 4] [ 13] [ 14]
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 ofMazkeret Batya , this settlement was founded [] on land belonging toAqir ."[ 15]
References ^ Palmer, 1881, pp.9 ,272 ^a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p.30 ^a b c Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.67 ^a b Morris, 2004, p.xix , village #260. Also gives cause of depopulation. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p.120 ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p.21 ^ Guérin, 1869, pp.34 -35 ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p.408 ^ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramleh, p.21 ^ Mills, 1932, p.21 ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.116 ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.166 ^ Morris, 2004, p.125 note #455, p.157 ^ Morris, 2004, p.240 note #581, p.295 ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 398
Bibliography Barron, J.B., ed. (1923).Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 Conder, C.R. ;Kitchener, H.H. (1882).The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund .Department of Statistics (1945).Village Statistics, April, 1945 Guérin, V. (1869).Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine Hadawi, S. (1970).Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine the original on 2018-12-08. Retrieved2009-08-18 .Khalidi, W. (1992).All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 Washington D.C. :Institute for Palestine Studies .ISBN 0-88728-224-5 Mills, E., ed. (1932).Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas Morris, B. (2004).The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6 Palmer, E.H. (1881).The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund .Robinson, E. ;Smith, E. (1841).Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838 Crocker & Brewster .
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