Bayt Shanna

Coordinates: 31°52′39″N 34°59′13″E / 31.87750°N 34.98694°E / 31.87750; 34.98694
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Bayt Shanna
بيت شنّة
Etymology: The house of Shenna[1]
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Geopolitical entity
Mandatory Palestine
SubdistrictRamle
Date of depopulationJuly 15-16, 1948[4]
Population
 (1945)
 • Total210[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces

Bayt Shanna was a

Operation Dani. It was located 11.5 km southeast of Ramla
.

Etymology

Bayt šannā /Bēt šanna/ is an Aramaic place-name, which means "House of the Rock" (šn’).[5] A rarely documented variant in 16th century endowment deeds reads Bayt al-šunnāra /Bēt iš-šunnāra/ [53] , “the place of the cat (or ‘of the partridge’)”.[5]

History

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[6]

Ottoman era

Bayt Shanna was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine.

In 1552, Bayt Shanna was an inhabited village.

Hürrem Sultan, the favourite wife of Suleiman the Magnificent, endowed the tax revenues of Bayt Shanna to her Haseki Sultan Imaret in Jerusalem. Administratively, the village belonged to the Sub-district of Ramla in the District of Gaza.[7]

In 1596, it appeared in the

Muslims. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 1,000 Akçe. All of the revenue went to a Waqf.[8][9]

In 1838, it was noted as Beit Shinna, a place "in ruins or deserted," in the Ibn Humar area in the District of

Er-Ramleh.[10]

In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine noted at Beit Shenna: "Traces of ruins and squared stones."[11]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Bait Shanna had a population of 8 Muslims,[12] increasing in the 1931 census, when it was counted together with Salbit, to 406, still all Muslims, in a total of 71 houses.[13]

In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 210 Muslims[2] with 3,617 dunams of land.[3] Of this, 44 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 865 for cereals,[14] while 2,708 dunams were non-cultivable areas.[15]


  • Bayt Shanna 1942 1:20,000
    Bayt Shanna 1942 1:20,000
  • Bayt Shanna 1945 Scale 1:250,000
    Bayt Shanna 1945 Scale 1:250,000

1948, and aftermath

Bayt Shanna became depopulated after a military assault on July 15–16, 1948.[4]

As of 1992, there were no Israeli settlement on village land. Sha'alvim, on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of Salbit is the closest.[9]

In 1992, the village site was described: "The stone rubble of the former houses covers the village site. Large mulberry, olive, and almond trees grow amid the rubble, most of which is covered by wild vegetation. The whole site is fenced in and appears to be used as a grazing area. On the hillside east of the village, a room made of masonry still stands. Fruit trees grow around it."[9]

References

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 287
  2. ^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 29
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 66
  4. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #238. Also gives cause of depopulation, with a "?".
  5. ^ a b Marom, Roy; Zadok, Ran (2023). "Early-Ottoman Palestinian Toponymy: A Linguistic Analysis of the (Micro-)Toponyms in Haseki Sultan's Endowment Deed (1552)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 139 (2).
  6. ^ Dauphin, 1998, p. 841
  7. ^ Marom, Roy (2022-11-01). "Jindās: A History of Lydda's Rural Hinterland in the 15th to the 20th Centuries CE". Lod, Lydda, Diospolis. 1: 8.
  8. ^ a b Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 155
  9. ^ a b c Khalidi, 1992, p. 367
  10. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 120
  11. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 86
  12. ^ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jerusalem, p. 15
  13. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 43
  14. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 114
  15. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 164

Bibliography

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