Lid, Khirbat
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| Lid | |
 Lid
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| Arabic | |
| Sub-district | Haifa |
| Coordinates | 32°36′49.2″N 35°13′26.7″E / 32.613667°N 35.224083°ECoordinates: 32°36′49.2″N 35°13′26.7″E / 32.613667°N 35.224083°E |
| Population | 640 (1945) |
| Area | |
| Date of depopulation | Not known[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | |
| Current localities | ha-Yogev |
Lid was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Haifa. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 9, 1948. It was located 32 km southeast of Haifa.
In 1945 it had a population of 640. The Khirbat al-Manatir contained artifacts from the Byzantine period.
[edit] References
- ^ Morris, 2004, p.xviii, village #385. Gives cause of depopulation and date as "Not known"
[edit] Bibliography
- Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center, http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html
- 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
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6. http://books.google.com/?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=benny+morris&q.
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