Khirbat Bayt Lid

Khirbat Bayt Lid
خربة بيت لد
Khirbet Beit Lid[1]
Village
Etymology: El Mughair=the caves[2]
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Khirbat Bayt Lid is located in Mandatory Palestine
Khirbat Bayt Lid
Khirbat Bayt Lid
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°19′04″N 34°53′33″E / 32.31778°N 34.89250°E / 32.31778; 34.89250
Palestine grid140/191
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictTulkarm
Date of depopulation5 April 1948[1]
Area
(2,969 Arab, 2,220 Jewish)[3]
 • Total5,336 dunams (5.336 km2 or 2.060 sq mi)
Population
 • Total460
Cause(s) of depopulationFear of being caught up in the fighting
Current LocalitiesNordia[5][6]

Khirbat Bayt Lid (Arabic: خربة بيت لد) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict. It was depopulated by its Arab inhabitants during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

  1. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #189. Also gives cause of depopulation
  2. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 175
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 75
  4. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 21
  5. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxi, settlement #23.
  6. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 550.