Khirbat Jiddin

Khirbat Jiddin

خربة جدّين
Khirbat Jiddin خربة جدّين
	Khirbat Jiddin mosque
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Khirbat Jiddin (click the buttons)
	Khirbat Jiddin Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 32°59′40″N 35°13′19″E / 32.99444°N 35.22194°E
Palestine grid	171/266
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Acre
Date of depopulation	11 July 1948 (Sheva' Brigade as part of Operation Dekel)
Population (1945)
• Total	1,500
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Yehiam, Kiryat, and Ga'aton

Khirbat Jiddin (Arabic: خربة جدين), known in the Kingdom of Jerusalem as Judin, was an Ottoman fortress in the western Upper Galilee, originally built by the Teutonic Order after 1220 as a crusader castle, 16 km northeast of the city of Acre, which at the time was the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. The castle was destroyed by the Mamluk sultan Baibars sometime between 1268-1271 and lay in ruins until being rebuilt and expanded by the Arab ruler Zahir al-Umar as Qal'at Jiddin (Arabic: قلعة جدين, lit. 'castle of Jiddin') in the 1760s, only to be destroyed again around 1775 by Jazzar Pasha.^[5]^[6] The ruined fortress, known as Khirbat Jiddin, was later inhabited by the al-Suwaytat Bedouin tribe.^[7]

According to a 1945 census, there were 1500 Muslims living in the area. Khirbat Jiddin land totaled 7,587 dunums, of which however all but 34 were officially listed as non-cultivable; 4,238 were owned by Arabs and 3,349 dunums owned by Jews.^[7] Kibbutz Yehiam was established in the area in 1946.^[8]

Today the remains of the castle are the central part of Yehi'am Fortress National Park.

^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 4
^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference Khalidi19 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Morris, 2004, p. xxi, settlement #30
^ | unit_pref = dunam | area_total_dunam = 7,587Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 40
^ Yeruham National Park, English version, 18/8/2013.
^ Pringle et al., 1994.
^ ^a ^b "Jiddin, Khirbat". PalestineRemembered.com. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
^ About Kibbutz Yehiam

[1945p4-1] Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 4

[Khalidi19-2] Cite error: The named reference Khalidi19 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[3] Morris, 2004, p. xxi, settlement #30

[4] | unit_pref = dunam | area_total_dunam = 7,587Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 40

[5] Yeruham National Park, English version, 18/8/2013.

[Pringle1994-6] Pringle et al., 1994.

[PalRemembered-7] "Jiddin, Khirbat". PalestineRemembered.com. Retrieved 9 April 2015.

[8] About Kibbutz Yehiam

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Khirbat Jiddin خربة جدّين
Khirbat Jiddin mosque
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Khirbat Jiddin (click the buttons)
Khirbat Jiddin Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°59′40″N 35°13′19″E / 32.99444°N 35.22194°E / 32.99444; 35.22194
Palestine grid	171/266
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Acre
Date of depopulation	11 July 1948 (Sheva' Brigade as part of Operation Dekel)
Population (1945)
• Total	1,500^[1]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Yehiam,^[2] Kiryat, and Ga'aton^[2]^[3]