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 dist ...

. It was located around the city of

Tulkarm Tulkarm, Tulkarem or Tull Keram ( ar, طولكرم, ''Ṭūlkarm'') is a Palestinian city in the West Bank, located in the Tulkarm Governorate of the State of Palestine. The Israeli city of Netanya is to the west, and the Palestinian cities of ...

. After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the subdistrict disintegrated, the western part became part of the Central District of

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

and the eastern part, became a part of the

Jordanian annexation of the West Bank The Jordanian annexation of the West Bank formally occurred on 24 April 1950, after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, during which Transjordan occupied territory that had previously been part of Mandatory PalestineRaphael Israeli, Jerusalem di ...

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

Tulkarm Governorate The Tulkarm Governorate ( ar, محافظة طولكرم, Muḥāfaẓat Ṭūlkarm) is an administrative district and one of 16 Governorates of Palestine located in the north-western West Bank. The governorate's land area is 268 square kilometr ...

, part of the

State of Palestine Palestine ( ar, فلسطين, Filasṭīn), officially the State of Palestine ( ar, دولة فلسطين, Dawlat Filasṭīn, label=none), is a state located in Western Asia. Officially governed by the Palestine Liberation Organization ( ...

Depopulated towns and villages

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

(current localities in parentheses) *

Khirbat Bayt Lid Khirbat Bayt Lid ( ar, خربة بيت لد) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict. It was depopulated by its Arab inhabitants during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. History In the 1860s, the Ottoman authorities granted the reside ...

( 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 t ...

(

Sha'ar Efraim Sha'ar Efraim ( he, שַׁעַר אֶפְרַיִם, ''lit.'' Efraim Gate) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lev HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The vil ...

on nearby lands) *

Ghabat Kafr Sur Ghabat Kafr Sur was a Palestinian village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on May 15, 1948, under Operation Coastal Clearing. It was located 16 km southwest of Tulkarm. ...

( Beit Yehoshua, Kfar Neter, Tel Yitzhak) * al-Jalama ( Lahavot Chaviva) *

Kafr Saba Kafr Saba ( ar, كفر سابا), historically Capharsaba, was a Palestinian Arab village famous for its shrine dating to the Mamluk period and for a history stretching back for two millennia. The village was depopulated of its Arab residents by ...

( Beyt Berl, HaKramim (neighborhood in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut), Neve Yamin) * Khirbat al-Majdal (

Sde Yitzhak Sde Yitzhak ( he, שְׂדֵה יִצְחָק, ''lit.'' Field of Yitzhak) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the eastern Sharon plain to the south-east of Hadera, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a po ...

) * al-Manshiyya ( Ahituv, Ein HaHoresh,

Givat Haim Givat Haim ( he, גִּבְעַת חַיִּים, , Haim Hill) 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 ...

) * Miska (

Mishmeret Mishmeret ( he, מִשְׁמֶרֶת, , Position or Post) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near Netanya and the HaSharon Junction and covering 3,800 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lev HaSharon Regional Coun ...

Sde Warburg Sde Warburg ( he, שְׂדֵה וַרְבּוּרְג) is a moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located to the north of Kfar Saba, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Before th ...

) * Qaqun (

Gan Yoshiya Gan Yoshiya ( he, גַּן יֹאשִׁיָּה, lit. ''Josiah's Garden'') is a moshav in central Israel. Located near the Green Line in the Tulkarm area, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a populatio ...

, Haniel,

HaMa'apil HaMa'apil ( he, הַמַּעְפִּיל, ''lit.'' The illegal immigrant) is a kibbutz in central Israel. It is located near Ahituv within the jurisdiction of the Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The communit ...

, Olesh, Ometz, Yikon) *

Raml Zayta Raml Zayta ( ar, رمل زيتة, ''Raml Zeitâ''), also Khirbet Qazaza, was a Palestinian Arab village located 15 km northwest of Tulkarm.Khalidi, 1992, p. 560 History British Mandate era In the 1931 census of Palestine it was counted w ...

(

) * Tabsur ( Batzra,

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

suburbs) *

Umm Khalid Umm Khalid ( ar, أم خالد), also called Mukhalid, was a 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 f ...

(

Netanya Netanya (also known as Natanya, he, נְתַנְיָה) is a city in the Northern Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa, between Poleg stream and Wingate ...

suburbs) * Wadi al-Hawarith ( Geulei Teiman,

Kfar Haroeh Kfar Haroeh ( he, כְּפַר הָרֹאֶ"ה, ''lit.'' Haroeh Village) is a religious moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain between Hadera and Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it ha ...

, Kfar Vitkin) * Wadi Qabbani * Khirbat al-Zababida * Khirbat Zalafa (

Givat Oz Giv'at Oz ( he, גִּבְעַת עֹז, ''lit.'' Hill of Strength) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Jezreel Valley between Umm al-Fahm and Afula, it falls under the jurisdiction of Megiddo Regional Council. In it had a populati ...

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