Al-Jaladiyya

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Al-Jaladiyya
الجلدية
אל-ג'לדיה
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Al-Jaladiyya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°41′55″N34°44′59″E / 31.69861°N 34.74972°E / 31.69861; 34.74972
Palestine grid 126/122
Geopolitical entity Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict Gaza
Date of depopulationNot known [1]
Population
 (1945)
  Total360 [2] [3]

Al-Jaladiyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 8, 1948, by the Giv'ati Brigade. It was located 34 kilometres northeast of Gaza.

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The Crusades built a castle in the village.

Al-Jaladiyya was abandoned at some point after the 16th century. [4] It was resettled in the 19th century by migrants from Egypt. [4] [5] [6]

There was a school located in the village mosque (built 1890), and when it opened its doors in 1945 it had an enrollment of 43 students.

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References

  1. Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #289. Morris gives both cause and date for depopulation as "Not known"
  2. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 31
  3. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 45 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
  4. 1 2 Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 381
  5. גרוסמן, דוד; Grossman, David (1987). "Rural Settlement in the Southern Coastal Plain and the Shefelah, 1835-1945 / היישוב הכפרי במישור-פלשת ובשפלה הנמוכה, 1835-1945". Cathedra: For the History of Eretz Israel and Its Yishuv / קתדרה: לתולדות ארץ ישראל ויישובה (45): 64. ISSN   0334-4657.
  6. al-Dabbagh, Mustapha Murad. Our Country Palestine / بلادنا فلسطين (in Arabic). Vol. II. pp. 207–208, 215.

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