Ramle Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine

The Ramle Subdistrict was one of the subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine. It was part of Lydda District of the British Mandate of Palestine. The sub-district's main city was Ramle. Its total population in 1944 was estimated at 123,490, of which 88,560 were Muslims; 29,420 were Jews; and 5,500 were Christians. A number of Palestinian Arab villages in the subdistrict were depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War, both by Jewish forces prior to the Israeli declaration of independence and after by Israeli forces. Following the war the area that had made up Ramla Subdistrict became a part of Israel's Central District, being mostly subdivided between a newly created Ramla Subdistrict and Rehovot Subdistrict.

Depopulated towns and villages



 * Abu al-Fadl
 * Abu Shusha
 * Ajanjul
 * Aqir
 * Barfiliya
 * al-Barriyya
 * Bashshit
 * Khirbat Bayt Far
 * Bayt Jiz
 * Bayt Nabala
 * Bayt Shanna
 * Bayt Susin
 * Bir Ma'in
 * Bir Salim
 * al-Burj
 * Khirbat al-Buwayra
 * Daniyal
 * Dayr Abu Salama
 * Dayr Ayyub
 * Dayr Muhaysin


 * Dayr Tarif
 * Khirbat al-Duhayriyya
 * al-Haditha
 * Idnibba
 * Innaba
 * Jilya
 * Jimzu
 * Kharruba
 * al-Khayma
 * Khulda
 * al-Kunayyisa
 * Latrun
 * Lydda
 * al-Maghar
 * Majdal Yaba
 * al-Mansura
 * al-Mukhayzin
 * al-Muzayri'a
 * al-Na'ani
 * Nabi Rubin
 * Qatra


 * Qazaza
 * al-Qubab
 * al-Qubayba
 * Qula
 * Ramle
 * Sajad
 * Salbit
 * Sarafand al-Amar
 * Sarafand al-Kharab
 * Saydun
 * Shahma
 * Shilta
 * al-Tina
 * al-Tira
 * Umm Kalkha
 * Wadi Hunayn
 * Yibna
 * Khirbat Zakariyya
 * Zarnuqa