Sajad

Sajad
Sajad
Village
	Remains of Sajad Railway platform.
	Etymology: Kh. es Sejed, the ruin of adoration
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Sajad (click the buttons)
	Sajad Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 31°47′01″N 34°53′34″E / 31.78361°N 34.89278°E
Palestine grid	139/132
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Ramle
Date of depopulation	1948
Area
• Total	2,795 dunams (2.795 km2 or 1.079 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	370
Current Localities	Israeli military zone

Sajad (Arabic: سجد) was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict. It was located sixteen kilometers south of Ramla. Sajad was established in the late 19th century near a local train station.^[5] It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli war.^[6]

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 271
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 30
^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference Hadawi68 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #264. Gives "not known" as to date and cause of depopulation.
^ 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. 379
^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 410