Al-Mansura, Ramla
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| Al-Mansura | |
 Al-Mansura
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| Arabic | |
| Sub-district | Ramla |
| Coordinates | 31°50′16.35″N 34°51′26.05″E / 31.837875°N 34.8572361°ECoordinates: 31°50′16.35″N 34°51′26.05″E / 31.837875°N 34.8572361°E |
| Population | 90 (1945) |
| Area | |
| Date of depopulation | April 20, 1948[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Al-Mansura was a small Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 20, 1948 under Operation Barak.
It was located 10 km south of Ramla.
In 1945 it had a population of 90.
[edit] References
- ^ Morris, 2004, p.xix, village #260. 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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