Khirbat Bayt Lid
Khirbat Bayt Lid | |
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Khirbat Bayt Lid | |
Arabic | خربة بيت لد |
Also spelled | Khirbet Beit Lid[1] |
Subdistrict | Tulkarm |
Coordinates | 32°19′03.9″N 34°53′32.7″E / 32.317750°N 34.892417°ECoordinates: 32°19′03.9″N 34°53′32.7″E / 32.317750°N 34.892417°E |
Palestine grid | 140/191 |
Area | 5,336 (2,969 Arab, 2,220 Jewish) dunams |
Date of depopulation | 5 April 1948[1] |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
Current localities | Nordia[2][3] |
Khirbat Bayt Lid (Arabic: خربة بيت لد) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict. It was depopulated by its Arab inhabitants during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
In 1945, the lands of Khirbat Bayt Lid totaled 5,336 dunams, of which 2,969 were owned by Arabs and 2,220 by Jews.
The kibbutz Nordia was established on village land in August 1948.[2][3]
References
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 135)
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- Khalidi, Walid (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. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. 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.
External links
- Welcome To Bayt Lid, Khirbat
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 10: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Bayt Lid, Khirbat, from Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
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