Khirbat al-Buwayra
Village in Ramle, Mandatory Palestine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Khirbat al-Buwayra was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 15, 1948, under the second phase of Operation Dani. It was located 15 km southeast of Ramla.
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Khirbat al-Buwayra
خربة البويرة | |
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Village | |
| Etymology: the little pit[1] | |
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 Khirbat al-Buwayra Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
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| Palestine grid | 151/142 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Ramle |
| Date of depopulation | July 15, 1948 |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 190[2][3] |
History
By the beginning of the 20th century, residents from Qatanna settled Khirbat al-Buwayra, establishing it as a dependency – or satellite village – of their home village.[4]
In the 1931 census El Buweiyiri had 101 Muslim inhabitants, in a total of 17 houses.[5]
In the 1945 statistics, it had a population of 190 Muslims[2] and 1,150 dunums of land.[3] Of this, 31 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, 316 dunums were used for cereals,[6] while 803 dunams were classified as non-cultivable areas.[7]
The center of the village contained many wells and the village has a khirba with the foundation of a building with cisterns. Today the village area is used as a military training ground by the Israeli Army.[8]
- Khirbat al-Buwayra from 1919 survey 1:20,000.
- Khirbat al-Buwayra 1945 1:250,000 (bottom left quadrant)
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