Mandatory Palestine 1945 subdistricts and districts

The Tulkarm Subdistrict was one of the

subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine The districts and sub-districts of Mandatory Palestine formed the first and second levels of administrative division and existed through the whole era of Mandatory Palestine, namely from 1920 to 1948. The number and territorial extent of the dis ...

. It was located around the city of

Tulkarm Tulkarm or Tulkarem (, ''Ṭūlkarm'') is a Palestinians, Palestinian city in the West Bank, the capital of the Tulkarm Governorate of the State of Palestine. The Israeli city of Netanya is to the west, and the Palestinian territories, Palestinia ...

. After the

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, the subdistrict disintegrated, the western part became part of the Central District of

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and the eastern part, became a part of the

Jordanian annexation of the West Bank The Jordanian administration of the West Bank officially began on 24 April 1950, and ended with the decision to sever ties on 31 July 1988. The period started during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, when Jordan occupied and subsequently annexed the ...

from 1948 to 1967). Most of the eastern part is today the

Tulkarm Governorate The Tulkarm Governorate () is an administrative district and one of the 16 Governorates of Palestine, located in the north-western West Bank. The governorate's land area is 268 square kilometres. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau o ...

, part of the

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Depopulated towns and villages

1945 Palestine Mandate Village Statistics population page for Sub-District of Tulkarm

(current localities in parentheses) * Khirbat Bayt Lid ( Nordia) * Bayyarat Hannun *

Fardisya Fardisya was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the Tulkarm Subdistrict, south of Tulkarm. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 1, 1948, under Operation Coastal Clearing, and was mostly destroyed with ...

( Sha'ar Efraim on nearby lands) * Ghabat Kafr Sur ( Beit Yehoshua, Kfar Neter,

Tel Yitzhak Tel Yitzhak () is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located in the Israeli coastal plain, coastal plain to the south-east of Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The region of ...

) * al-Jalama ( Lahavot Chaviva) *

Kafr Saba Kafr Saba () was a Palestinian village famous for its shrine dating to the Mamluk period and for a history stretching back for two millennia. In Roman times, it was called Capharsaba and was an important town in Palestine. By around 1000, it was ...

( Beyt Berl, Hak'ramim, Neve Yamin) * Khirbat al-Majdal ( Sde Yitzhak) * al-Manshiyya ( Ahituv,

Ein HaHoresh Ein HaHoresh () is a kibbutz in the Sharon region of the Central District of Israel. Located to the north of Netanya and to the south of Hadera, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . ...

Givat Haim Givat Haim () was a kibbutz located around five kilometres south of Hadera in Israel. It split along ideological lines in 1952, creating two new kibbutzim, Givat Haim (Meuhad) and Givat Haim (Ihud).Ranen Omer-Sherman (2015''Imagining the Kibbutz: ...

) * Miska ( Mishmeret, Sde Warburg) *

Qaqun Qaqun () was a Palestinian Arab village located northwest of the city of Tulkarm at the only entrance to Mount Nablus from the coastal Sharon plain. Evidence of organized settlement in Qaqun dates back to the period of Assyrian rule in th ...

( Gan Yoshiya, Haniel, HaMa'apil, Olesh, Ometz, Yikon) * Raml Zayta ( Sde Yitzhak) * Tabsur ( Batzra,

Ra'anana Ra'anana () is an affluent city in the southern Sharon, Israel, Sharon Plain of the Central District (Israel), Central District of Israel. It was founded in 1922 as an American-Jewish settlement, 1 km south of the village of Tabsur, where a ...

suburbs) *

Umm Khalid Umm Khalid (), also called Mukhalid, was a Palestinian people, Palestinian village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict, west of Tulkarm. It was an ancient site in the central coastline of what is now the city of Netanya, Israel. History Archaeological ...

(

Netanya Netanya () () or Natanya (), is a city in the "Planet Bekasi" Central District (Israel), Setanyahu of Israel, Israel BAB ih, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa, between the Poleg stre ...

suburbs) * Wadi al-Hawarith ( Geulei Teiman, Kfar Haroeh, Kfar Vitkin) * Wadi Qabbani * Khirbat al-Zababida * Khirbat Zalafa ( Givat Oz)

References

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