Rantiya

Rantiya
رنتيّة
Rantieh, Rantia, Rentie
Etymology: Rantieh, from a personal name[1]
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Rantiya is located in Mandatory Palestine
Rantiya
Rantiya
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°2′40″N 34°55′17″E / 32.04444°N 34.92139°E / 32.04444; 34.92139
Palestine grid142/161
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictJaffa
Date of depopulation10 July 1948[4]
Area
[3]
 • Total4,389 dunams (4.389 km2 or 1.695 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total590[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Current LocalitiesMazor,[5] Nofekh,[5] Rinatia[5][6]

Rantiya (Arabic: رنتيّة, known to the Romans as Rantia and to the Crusaders as Rentie) was a Palestinian village, located 16 kilometers east of Jaffa. During the British Mandate in Palestine, in 1945 it had a population of 590 inhabitants.

Those inhabitants became refugees after a 10 July 1948 assault by Israeli forces from the Palmach's Eighth Armored Brigade and the Third Infantry Battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.[5]

Of the over 100 houses that made up the village, only three remain standing today.[5] The Jewish localities of Mazor, Nofekh, and Rinatia are located on Rantiya's former lands.[5]

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 217
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 28
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 53
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #212. Also gives cause of depopulation. According to Morris the village had also been depopulated the 28 April 1948, also at that time by Military assault.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Khalidi, 1992. p. 252
  6. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxii, settlement #97, in 1949