Rantiya

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Rantiya
Arabic رنتيّة
Also Spelled Rantia, Rentie
District Jaffa
Population 590 (1945)
Jurisdiction 4,389 dunams
Date of depopulation 10 July 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation Military assault by Jewish forces
Current localities Mazor, Nofekh, Rinnatya

Rantiya (Arabic: رنتيّة‎, known to the Romans as Rantia and to the Crusaders as Rentie) was a Palestinian village, located 16 kilometers east of Jaffa. During the British Mandate in Palestine, it had a population of approximately 600 inhabitants.[1]

Those inhabitants became refugees after a 10 July 1948 assault by Israeli forces from the Palmach's Eighth Armored Brigade and the Third Infantry Battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.[1]

Of the over 100 houses that made up the village, only three remain standing today.[1] The Jewish localities of Mazor, Nofekh, and Rinnatya. are located on Rantiya's former lands.[1]

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[edit] History

During the Crusader era, Rentie, along with other coastal towns such as Deirelcobebe and Semsem were the site of Hospitaller castles of the Sovereign Order of the Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta. [2]

[edit] References in contemporary culture

In Soraida: A Woman of Palestine, the main character explains that she named her daughter and son, Rantia and Aram, after Palestinian villages to preserve the memory of the homeland.[3]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d Welcome to Rantiya. Palestine Remembered. Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
  2. ^ Kelley L. Ross (2002). [http://www.friesian.com/outremer.htm "The Periphery of Francia: Outremer - Kings of Jerusalem and Cyprus, Counts of Edessa, Princes of Antioch, Counts of Tripoli, Kings of Thessalonica, Dukes of Athens, Princes of Achaea, and the Grand Masters of the Military Monastic Orders"]. The Proceedings of the Friesian School, Fourth Series. Retrieved on 2007-12-10.
  3. ^ "This Is Not Living, and: Women in Struggle, and: Soraida, A Woman of Palestine (review)" (Fall 2006). Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Volume 2, Number 3: 125 - 130. 
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