Khirbat al-Buwayra
خربة البويرة
Village
Etymology: the little pit[1]
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Khirbat al-Buwayra is located in Mandatory Palestine
Khirbat al-Buwayra
Khirbat al-Buwayra
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 31°52′27″N 35°00′52″E / 31.87417°N 35.01444°E / 31.87417; 35.01444
Palestine grid151/142
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictRamle
Date of depopulationJuly 15, 1948
Population
 (1945)
 • Total190[2][3]

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.

History

In the 1931 census El Buweiyiri had 101 Muslim inhabitants, in a total of 17 houses.[4]

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,[5] while 803 dunams were classified as non-cultivable areas.[6]

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.[7]

References

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 292
  2. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 29
  3. ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 67
  4. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 19
  5. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 115
  6. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 165
  7. ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 372

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Palestinian Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus by subdistrict
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