Beersheba Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine
|  Beersheba Subdistrict قضاء بئر السبع  | |||||
| Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine | |||||
    
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| Capital | Beersheba | ||||
| History | |||||
| • | Established | 1920 | |||
| • | Disestablished | 1948 | |||
| Area | |||||
| • | 1945 | 12,577 km2 (4,856 sq mi) | |||
| Population | |||||
| • | 1922 | 75,254[1] | |||
| • | 1931 | 51,082[1] | |||
| • | 1945 | 90,507 | |||
| Density | 7.2 /km2 (18.6 /sq mi) | ||||
| Today part of |   | ||||
The Beersheba Subdistrict (Arabic: قضاء بئر السبع) was one of the subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine. It was located in modern-day southern Israel. The city of Beersheba was the capital. After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the subdistrict disintegrated.
Depopulated towns and villages
(current localities in parentheses)
- Auja al-Hafir (Nessana)
 - Beersheba
 - al-Imara (Ofakim, Urim)
 - al-Jammama (Ruhama)
 - al-Khalasa
 - Umm al-Rashrash (Eilat)
 
References
- 1 2 "سكان قضاء بئر السبع - بلادنا فلسطين، صفحة 330". Palestine Remembered. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
 
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