Bayt Umm al-Mays

Coordinates: 31°46′49″N 35°04′49″E / 31.78028°N 35.08028°E / 31.78028; 35.08028
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Bayt Umm al-Mays
بيت أم الميس
Etymology: The house of the meis-tree (Cordia myxa)[1]
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Geopolitical entity
Mandatory Palestine
SubdistrictJerusalem
Date of depopulationOctober 21, 1948[4]
Area
 • Total1,013 dunams (1.013 km2 or 250 acres)
Population
 (1945)
 • Total70[2][3]
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces

Bayt Umm al-Mays was a small

Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict
.

The village was established and settled during the late

Har'el Brigade of Operation ha-Har. It was located 14 km west of Jerusalem
.

History

British Mandate era

In the

cereals,[6] while 2 dunams were built-up, urban, land.[7]

  • Bayt Umm al-Mays 1943 1:20,000 (lower right quadrant)
    Bayt Umm al-Mays 1943 1:20,000 (lower right quadrant)
  • Bayt Umm al-Mays 1945 1:250,000
    Bayt Umm al-Mays 1945 1:250,000

1948 and aftermath

Bayt Umm al-Mays was depopulated October 21, 1948.[4]

Following the war, the area was incorporated into the

well. Two caves can be seen in the west. There are two very large stone slabs standing at the southern edge of the site, surrounded by bushes."[9]

Archaeology

In 1863,

wells nor cisterns, but were obliged to fetch water from a rather distant spring.[10]

In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) noted at Beit Meis: "Ruined walls. No indication of age."[11]

References

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 286
  2. ^ a b Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 24
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 56
  4. ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xx, village #344. Also gives cause of depopulation, both with a "?"
  5. ^ Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 362
  6. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 102
  7. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 152
  8. ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxi, settlement #40
  9. ^ a b Khalidi, 1992, p. 281
  10. ^ Guérin, 1869, pp. 9-10
  11. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 85

Bibliography

  • Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H. H. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
  • Guérin, V. (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 1: Judee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
  • Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
  • ISBN 0-88728-224-5
    .
  • ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6
    .
  • Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.

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