Saydun

Saydun
Saydun
Arabic صيدون
Subdistrict Ramle
Coordinates 31°50′28.2″N 34°54′17.5″E / 31.841167°N 34.904861°E / 31.841167; 34.904861Coordinates: 31°50′28.2″N 34°54′17.5″E / 31.841167°N 34.904861°E / 31.841167; 34.904861
Palestine grid 141/138
Population 210[1] (1945)
Date of depopulation not known [2]

Saydun (Arabic: صيدون) was a Palestinian Arab 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.

In 1945, it had a population of 210.

References

  1. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 30
  2. Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #259. Gives both date and cause of depopulation as "Not known"

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