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Revision as of 19:59, 26 April 2010

Template:Infobox former Arab villages in Palestine

Khulda was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War on April 6, 1948 under Operation Nachshon. It was located 12 km south of Ramla. The Crusaders referred to Khulda as "Huldre"

In 1945 it had a population of 280. The village had a mosque.

History

Mujir al-Din al-'Ulaymi narrates how the under-Governor of Ramleh had in 1495 C.E. had to take refuge against marouding Bedouin in a small fort which then existed at Khulda.[1]

Khulda was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine and in 1596, it was under the administration of the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Ramla, part of the liwa of Gaza. The village paid taxes on wheat, barley, beehives, and goats, and had a population of sixty-six.[2]

When Edward Robinson passed by in 1838, he described Khulda as "a large village" on a hill.[3]

Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau visited Khulda in 1871, and the inhabitants told him how the village used to be surrounded by a fortified wall, and two gates were still supposed to be in situ. Clermont-Ganneau noted that this agrees with what Mujir al-Din wrote about the place.[4]

References

  1. ^ Mujir al-Din, p.702, cited in Clermont-Ganneau, 1896, II, p.251 -252
  2. ^ Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter and Kamal Abdulfattah, 1977, Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. p. 153. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 389
  3. ^ Robinson, 1841, p.21
  4. ^ Clermont-Ganneau, 1896, II, p.467

Bibliography