Al-Khayma

Al-Khayma

الخيمة
Al-Khayma الخيمة
Village
	Etymology: The Tent
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Khayma (click the buttons)
	Al-Khayma Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 31°45′44″N 34°49′47″E / 31.76222°N 34.82972°E
Palestine grid	133/130
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Ramle
Date of depopulation	Not known
Area
• Total	5,150 dunams (5.15 km2 or 1.99 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	190

Al-Khayma (Arabic: الخيمة) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 9, 1948, by the Givati Brigade of Operation An-Far. It was located 18.5 km south of Ramla.

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 268
^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 29
^ ^a ^b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 67
^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #267. Morris gives both cause and date of depopulation as "Not known".

Al-Khayma الخيمة
Village
Etymology: The Tent^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Khayma (click the buttons)
Al-Khayma Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°45′44″N 34°49′47″E / 31.76222°N 34.82972°E / 31.76222; 34.82972
Palestine grid	133/130
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Ramle
Date of depopulation	Not known^[4]
Area ^[3]
• Total	5,150 dunams (5.15 km² or 1.99 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	190^[2]^[3]