Saydun
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| Arabic | صيدون |
| Sub-district | Ramla |
| Coordinates | 31°50′28.2″N 34°54′17.5″E / 31.841167°N 34.904861°ECoordinates: 31°50′28.2″N 34°54′17.5″E / 31.841167°N 34.904861°E |
| Population | 210 (1945) |
| Area | |
| Date of depopulation | not known [1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation |
Saydun (Arabic: صيدون) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 6, 1948 under Operation Nachshon. It was located 9 km south of Ramla on the east bank of Wadi Saydun.
In 1945 it had a population of 210.
[edit] References
- ^ Morris, 2004, p xix village #259. Gives both date and cause of depopulation 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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