District of Al-Ramla

The village was situated on flat terrain on the central coastal plain. It lay on the highway leading to al-Ramla, Jaffa, and other urban centers, and was linked to area villages by a variety of roads. In addition, the Lydda-Jaffa railway line ran about 1.5 km east of the village. There is a tradition that members of the Qada'a tribe settled the village in the early Islamic period and named it after their native home, Wadi Hunayn, in Hadramawt (Yemen). In modern times, the vil

The village was built on uneven land on the foothills of the Jerusalem mountains. A secondary road connected it to the Gaza-Jerusalem main road, which lay to the north of the village’s lands. Some seasonal dirt roads also connected it to the villages of Deir Muhaysin and Beit Susin. At the beginning of the 20th century, the village was elongated in shape, with narrow streets and houses built of stone and mud. Its inhabitants were Muslim. The village center included a few shop

The village stood on flat land on the central coastal plain, linked by a secondary road to a highway that led to Ramla. In the late nineteenth century, Zarnuqa was a village built of adobe bricks with gardens and cactus hedges around it. All of the people living in Zarnuqa were Muslims. The village was laid out in a trapezoidal shape, with the western side making up the long base of the trapezoid. Construction proceeded at a fast pace in the final years of the Mandate as a re

According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, all that remains of the village: "From a distance, the village appears as a bare hill overgrown with thorns and other wild vegetation. The remains of village wells and the cut stones that were used to cover them are visible."

The village was located on the coastal plain, about 7.5 km east of the Mediterranean. It was the central node in a transportation network linking the south and the mid-west of Palestine, served by a train station on the Gaza-Lydda railroad, and by the Gaza-Jaffa highway, which passed through the village. Literary sources provide a reasonably detailed record of the early history of Yibna. It appears in the Bible with the name Jabneel (2 Chronicles 26:6-8) and seems to have bee

According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, all that remains of the village: "The site is now occupied by the settlement of Yesodot."

The village was situated on limestone hills that were slightly higher than the surrounding area. Secondary roads connected it with two highways leading to Ramla, Jaffa, and other urban centers. AI-Tira was identified with the Crusader locality of Thaeria. In 1596, al-Tira was a village in the nahiya of Ramla (liwa' of Gaza) with a population of 160. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, and fruits, as well as on other types of produce and property, such

The village was built on flat terrain on the southern coastal plain and was surrounded by equally flat areas. AI-Tina ("fig" in Arabic) was linked by a highway from Gaza to the al-RamIa-Jerusalem highway, and by roads and dirt paths to surrounding villages. In 1596, al-Tina was a village in the nahiya of Gaza (liwa' of Gaza) with a population of fifty-five. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, sesame, and fruit, as well as on other types of produce, su

Shilta was situated on a hill of hard limestone on the easternmost edge of the central coastal plain. Several trails connected it to neighboring villages. The village site has been identified with the Crusader locality of Capharscylta. The French traveler Guérin, who visited Palestine several times, noted in 1874 that Shilta consisted of several houses, some of which were the remains of older buildings that had been supplemented with new enclosures to make them habitable. He

The village was situated on the coastal plain in a flat area that was slightly higher than the terrain to the south and southeast. Wadi al-Sarar ran about 1 km southwest of it. A secondary road linked Shahma to a highway that led to Ramla and the coastal highway. Just north of the village was 'Aqir military airport, built by the British during World War II; Shahma military base lay to the north and east. In the late nineteenth century, Shahma was a small village built of adob

The village stood on the east bank of Wadi Saydun, a tributary of Wadi al-Sarar, on the eastern edge of the coastal plain. Saydun was south of the southern branch of the Ramla-Jerusalem highway. In the 1830s it was a large village, according to Robinson, who passed by it in 1838 , but by the late nineteenth century it was described as a small village built of adobe bricks. Later houses, constructed of mud, cement, and stone, were clustered together along the above-mentioned r

The village stood on a flat spot in the middle of the coastal plain. It was linked by a spur to a highway to the west that intersected with a highway between Ramla and Jaffa. It was also known as Sarafand al-Sughra ('the smaller Sarafand'), to distinguish it from its larger sister village, Sarafand al-Kubra ('the larger Sarafand'), 5 km to the northeast. Sarafand al-Sughra has been identified with an unnamed Crusader locality, based on the evidence of architectural remnants (

The village was situated in a flat area on the central coastal plain, on the western side of a highway between Ramla and Jaffa. It was also called Sarafand al-Kubra ('the larger Sarafand') to distinguish it from Sarafand al-Sughra ('the smaller Sarafand'), its sister village some 5 km to the southwest. In 1596, Sarafand was a village in the nahiya of Ramla (liwa' of Gaza) with a population of 358. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley, sesame, and fruit,

Salbit stood on a hill of soft limestone on the western edge of the Jerusalem-Hebron Mountains. Three km northwest of the village there was a secondary road which linked Salbit to the Ramla-Jerusalem highway. Dirt roads also connected it to adjacent villages. Its houses, made of mud and stone, were grouped around the village center, where the mosque, marketplace, and elementary school were located. The school, built in 1947, had an enrollment of forty-five students. All of th

The village was located in a hilly region at the eastern edge of the central coastal plain. A secondary road linked it to a highway to the north that connected Gaza to the highway between Ramla and Jerusalem. Sajad was one of the first villages to benefit from the construction of a railway system in Palestine. In August of 1892 train service between Jaffa and Jerusalem was initiated on a line constructed for the Ottoman government by a French railway company; the train stoppe

The village was situated on a limestone hill on the western slope of the Ramallah Mountains, overlooking the coastal plain. A highway from Ramla that led north toward Tulkarm passed 0.5 km west of it, linking it to Tulkarm and other urban centers as well. A number of secondary roads connected it to neighboring villages. QuIa was constructed on the site of a Crusader fortress known as Cola or Chola. In 1596, Qula was a village in the nahiya of Ramla (liwa' of Gaza) with a popu

The village stood on an alluvial elevation on the coastal plain, connected via a spur to the coastal highway to the west that linked it to Gaza, Ramla, and other urban centers. In the late nineteenth century, al-Qubayba was described as a village built of adobe bricks and situated on high ground. Gardens enclosed by cactus hedges were cultivated nearby. During the Mandate the houses were made of either adobe brick or stone and were clustered close to one another; new houses b

The village, built on several dome-shaped hills on the central coastal plain, was on the north side of the Ramla-Jerusalem highway. The name al-Qubab ('the domes') most likely referred to these hills. The village fell within the intermediate zone between the plain in the west and mountains in the east and as such, it belonged to a group of villages that were dubbed the 'irqiyyat ('the small hills'). The Jerusalem chronicler Mujir al-Din al-Hanbali (d. ca. 1522) wrote that al-