Wadi Hunayn
Wadi Hunayn (Arabic: وادي حنين) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict, located 9 km west of Ramla. According to a local tradition, it was named after the Yemeni home of the Qada'a tribe who settled here in the early Islamic period.
Wadi Hunayn
وادي حنين | |
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Abd-El-Rahman Taji and King Abdullah I of Jordan in Wadi Hunayn between 1920 and 1930. | |
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Wadi Hunayn (click the buttons) | |
Wadi Hunayn Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°55′39″N 34°47′43″E | |
| Palestine grid | 130/148 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Ramle |
| Date of depopulation | 17 April 1948 |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 1,620 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
| Current Localities | Israel Institute for Biological Research, Nes Tziyyona, |
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