Al-Mansura, Ramle

See El Mansurah (disambiguation) for other sites with similar names.
Al-Mansura
Village
Etymology: Building[1]
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Al-Mansura is located in Mandatory Palestine
Al-Mansura
Al-Mansura
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°50′16″N 34°51′26″E / 31.83778°N 34.85722°E / 31.83778; 34.85722
Palestine grid136/138
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictRamle
Date of depopulationApril 20, 1948[4]
Area
 • Total2,328 dunams (2.328 km2 or 575 acres)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total90[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces

Al-Mansura was a small Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict, located 10 km south of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 20, 1948, under Operation Barak.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, pp. 9, 272
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 30
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 67
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #260. Also gives cause of depopulation.