Saydun

Saydun
Saydun
Arabic	صيدون
Subdistrict	Ramle
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
Palestine grid	141/138
Population	210[1] (1945)
Date of depopulation	not known [2]

Saydun (Arabic: صيدون‎) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 6, 1948 during 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.

References

1. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 30
2. Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #259. Gives both date and cause of depopulation as "Not known"

Bibliography

• Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 (PDF). Government of Palestine.
• Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 408)
• Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
• Guérin, Victor (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 1: Judee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (p. 33)
• Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
• 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.
• Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas (PDF). Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
• Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
• Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 274)
• Robinson, Edward; Smith, Eli (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. (p. 21)

External links

• Welcome To Saydun
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 16: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Saydun, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center