Jilya
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For the Indian Princely town, see Jiliya.
| Jilya | |
 Jilya
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| Arabic | |
| Sub-district | Ramla |
| Coordinates | 31°46′05.30″N 34°51′52.15″E / 31.768139°N 34.8644861°ECoordinates: 31°46′05.30″N 34°51′52.15″E / 31.768139°N 34.8644861°E |
| Population | 330 (1945) |
| Area | |
| Date of depopulation | July 9-10, 1948[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
Jilya was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. The Romans referred to it as Jilya by Galla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War by the Givati Brigade of the first stage of Operation Dani on July 9, 1948. It was located 17 km south of Ramla.
A 1596 census revealed a population of 94. By 1945 the population had increased to 330.
[edit] References
- ^ Morris, 2004, p.xix, village #266. Also gives cause of depopulation.
[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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