Dayr Muhaysin

Dayr Muhaysin

دير مُحيسن
Umm esh Shukf
Dayr Muhaysin دير مُحيسن Umm esh Shukf
	Etymology: the monastery of good deeds
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Dayr Muhaysin (click the buttons)
	Dayr Muhaysin Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 31°49′42″N 34°56′4″E / 31.82833°N 34.93444°E
Palestine grid	143/137
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Ramle
Date of depopulation	April 6, 1948
Population (1945)
• Total	460
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Beqoa'

Dayr Muhaysin (Arabic: دير محيسن, Hebrew: דיר מוחיסין) was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, located 12 km southeast of Ramla and 4 km west of Latrun. It was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine war.

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 367
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 29
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 66
^ Morris, 2004, p. xx, village #327. Also gives cause for depopulation
^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 378

Dayr Muhaysin دير مُحيسن Umm esh Shukf
Etymology: the monastery of good deeds^[1]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Dayr Muhaysin (click the buttons)
Dayr Muhaysin Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°49′42″N 34°56′4″E / 31.82833°N 34.93444°E / 31.82833; 34.93444
Palestine grid	143/137
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Ramle
Date of depopulation	April 6, 1948^[4]
Population (1945)
• Total	460^[2]^[3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Beqoa'^[5]