Rantiya

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FieldValue
nameRantiya
native_nameرنتيّة
native_name_langar
other_nameRantieh, Rantia, Rentie
settlement_typeFormer village
etymologyRantieh, from a personal name
pushpin_mapMandatory Palestine
pushpin_mapsize200
coordinates
grid_namePalestine grid
grid_position142/161
subdivision_typeGeopolitical entity
subdivision_nameMandatory Palestine
subdivision_type1Subdistrict
subdivision_name1Jaffa
established_title1Date of depopulation
established_date110 July 1948
established_title2Repopulated dates
area_footnotes
unit_prefdunam
area_total_dunam4,389
population_as_of1945
population_total590
blank_name_sec1Cause(s) of depopulation
blank_info_sec1Military assault by Yishuv forces
blank3_name_sec1Current Localities
blank3_info_sec1Mazor,
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| name = Rantiya | native_name = رنتيّة | native_name_lang = ar | other_name = Rantieh, Rantia, Rentie | settlement_type = Former village | etymology = Rantieh, from a personal name | pushpin_map = Mandatory Palestine | pushpin_map_caption = Location within Mandatory Palestine | image_map = | map_caption = A series of historical maps of the area around Rantiya (click the buttons) | pushpin_mapsize = 200 | coordinates = | grid_name = Palestine grid | grid_position = 142/161 | subdivision_type = Geopolitical entity | subdivision_name = Mandatory Palestine | subdivision_type1 = Subdistrict | subdivision_name1 = Jaffa | established_title1 = Date of depopulation | established_date1 = 10 July 1948 | established_title2 = Repopulated dates | area_footnotes = | unit_pref = dunam | area_total_dunam = 4,389 | population_as_of = 1945 | population_total = 590 | blank_name_sec1 = Cause(s) of depopulation | blank_info_sec1 = Military assault by Yishuv forces | blank3_name_sec1 = Current Localities | blank3_info_sec1 = Mazor, Rantiya (, known to the Romans as Rantia and to the Crusaders as Rentie) was a Palestinian village, located 16 km east of Jaffa. During the British Mandate in Palestine, in 1945 it had a population of 590 inhabitants.

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.

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

Etymology

Ranṭyā /Ranṭya/ is an ancient name which perfectly matches the Greek Ῥαντία. The name is apparently related to that of Ranṭīs which is a Grecized form of a Hebrew name (Rmtym, LXX Aρμαθαιμ); with t ṭ under the influence of r.

During the Crusader era the village was known as Rentie, Rantia, or Rentia.

History

The village was situated on a low mound on an ancient site.

In 1122 the tithes of the village were granted to the hospital of the church of St John at Nablus. In 1166, the tithes were granted to the Knights Hospitaller. A vaulted building in the village, named al-Baubariya, has been dated to the Crusader period.

Ottoman era

Rantiya, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in 1557 the revenues of the village were designated for the new waqf of Hasseki Sultan Imaret in Jerusalem, established by Hasseki Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana), wife of Suleiman the Magnificent. Administratively, the village belonged to the Sub-district of Ramla in the District of Gaza. In the late 1550s, local disturbances decreased the income from the village by nearly 40%.

In 1596, Rantiya was a village in the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Ramla ( liwa' ("district") of Gaza), with a population of 132. Villagers paid taxes to the authorities for the crops that they cultivated, which included wheat, barley, fruit, and sesame as well as on other types of property, such as goats and beehives. All the villagers were Muslim. All of the revenues; a total of 5,300 Akçe, went to a Waqf.

In 1838 it was noted as a Muslim village called Rentieh in the Lydda administrative region, while in 1856 the village was named Renthieh on Kiepert's map of Palestine published that year.

In 1870 the French explorer Victor Guérin visited and described the village as partially destroyed, while an Ottoman village list from about the same year showed that Rantiya had 33 houses and a population of 116, though the population count included men only.

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine found Rantiya to be a small village built of adobe bricks. At that time a main road passed right next to it.

British Mandate era

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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Rantieh had a population of 351, all Muslims. increasing the 1931 census to 411, still all Muslims, in a total of 105 houses.

By 1945 the population had increased to 590 Muslims, while 13 dunams were classified as built-up areas.

1948, and after

In 1992 the village remains were described as "Three deserted houses, standing amid weeds, tall wild grasses, and the debris of several other houses, are all that remains of the village. Two of the deserted houses are made of stone, the third of concrete. All have rectangular doors and windows. Two of them have flat roofs; the third may have had a gabled roof."

References in contemporary culture

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

References

Bibliography

References

  1. Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/217/mode/1up 217]
  2. Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PR18 xviii], village #212. Also gives cause of depopulation. According to Morris the village had also been depopulated the 28 April 1948, also at that time by Military assault.
  3. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p28.jpg 28]
  4. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Jaffa/Page-053.jpg 53]
  5. [[Nofekh]], [[Rinatia]]Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PR22 xxii], settlement #97, in 1949
  6. Khalidi, 1992. p. 252
  7. Marom, Roy. (2023). "Early-Ottoman Palestinian Toponymy: A Linguistic Analysis of the (Micro-)Toponyms in Haseki Sultan’s Endowment Deed (1552)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins.
  8. Pringle, 1997, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-_NbE5obqRMC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA90 90]
  9. Rey, 1883, p. [https://archive.org/stream/lescoloniesfran00reygoog#page/n441/mode/1up 414]
  10. Dauphin, 1998, p. 821
  11. H. E. Mayer]] argued that the 1122 document was a forgery.
  12. Prutz, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/zeitschriftdesde03deut#page/167/mode/1up 167]; Röhricht, 1893, RRH, p. [https://archive.org/stream/regestaregnihie00rhgoog#page/n116/mode/1up 110], No. 423; both cited in Pringle, 1997, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-_NbE5obqRMC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA90 90]
  13. Ramazan]] 963 [[Hijri year. AH]].
  14. Marom, Roy. (2022-11-01). "Jindās: A History of Lydda's Rural Hinterland in the 15th to the 20th Centuries CE". Lod, Lydda, Diospolis.
  15. Singer, 2002, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zHBHBTNwBQoC&pg=PA124 124]
  16. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 155. Quoted in {{Harvnb. Khalidi. 1992
  17. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 155
  18. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/121/mode/1up 121]
  19. Kiepert, 1856, [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KiepertSouthernPalestine1856.jpg Map of Southern Palestine]
  20. Guérin, 1875, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr04gugoog#page/n416/mode/1up 391]-2
  21. Socin, 1879, p. [https://archive.org/stream/zeitschriftdesde01deut#page/159/mode/1up 159]
  22. Hartmann, 1883, p. [https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_BZobAQAAIAAJ#page/n946/mode/1up 138] also found 33 houses
  23. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/253/mode/1up 253], Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 252
  24. Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jaffa, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n22/mode/1up 20]
  25. Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 15].
  26. while the total land area was 4,389 [[dunam]]s, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 505 were allocated for citrus and bananas, 99 were for plantations and irrigable land, 3,518 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Jaffa/Page-096.jpg 96]
  27. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Jaffa/Page-146.jpg 146]
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