Wadi Hunayn
وادي حنين | |
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 Abd-El-Rahman Taji and King Abdullah I of Jordan in Wadi Hunayn between 1920 and 1930. | |
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  Wadi Hunayn Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°55′39″N 34°47′43″E / 31.92750°N 34.79528°E | |
| Palestine grid | 130/148 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Ramle |
| Date of depopulation | 17 April 1948[2] |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 1,620[1] |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
| Current Localities | Israel Institute for Biological Research,[3][4] Nes Tziyyona, |
Wadi Hunayn (Arabic: وادي حنين) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict, located 9 km west of Ramla. According to a local tradition, it was named after the Yemeni home of the Qada'a tribe who settled here in the early Islamic period.[5]
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 30
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #249. Also gives cause of depopulation
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 421: part of it occupies the former palatial home of Abu Umar Effendi
- ^ Traces of poison, Salman Abu-Sitta, 5 March 2003, Al-Ahram
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, pp. 419–421
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