Saydun

Saydun
صيدون
Village
Etymology: from Zidon[1]
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Saydun is located in Mandatory Palestine
Saydun
Saydun
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°50′28″N 34°54′17″E / 31.84111°N 34.90472°E / 31.84111; 34.90472
Palestine grid141/138
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictRamle
Date of depopulationnot known[4]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total
210[2][3]

Saydun (Arabic: صيدون) was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 6, 1948, during Operation Nachshon. It was located 9 km south of Ramla on the east bank of Wadi Saydun.

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 274
  2. ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 30
  3. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 68
  4. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #259. Gives both date and cause of depopulation as "Not known"