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Al-Jammasin Al-Gharbi
Al-Jammasin al-Gharbi was a Palestinian people, Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine, Jaffa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 17, 1948. It was located 6.5 km northeast of Jaffa. History Al-Jammasin's inhabitants were known to be descendants of nomads from the Jordan Valley (Middle East), Jordan Valley. In 1596, a Jammasin tribe appear in the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman daftar, census, located in the ''Nahiya'' of Bani Sa'b of the ''Liwa (Arabic), Liwa'' of Sanjak of Nablus, Nablus, paying taxes on water buffalos. Walid Khalidi, Khalidi writes that it is not certain that this was the same tribe that settled the two Jammasin villages. The tribe was known to have settled in the area by the 18th century. British Mandate era In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate authorities, the tribal area of Jammasin had a population of 200 Muslims,Barr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. During the First World War (1914–1918), an Arab uprising against Ottoman rule and the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force under General Edmund Allenby drove the Ottoman Turks out of the Levant during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign. The United Kingdom had agreed in the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence that it would honour Arab independence if the Arabs revolted against the Ottoman Turks, but the two sides had different interpretations of this agreement, and in the end, the United Kingdom and France divided the area under the Sykes–Picot Agreementan act of betrayal in the eyes of the Arabs. Further complicating the issue was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
