Saydun

Saydun (صيدون) was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 6, 1948, during Operation Nachshon. It was located 9 km south of Ramla on the east bank of Wadi Saydun.

History
In 1838, it was noted as a large village  whose inhabitants were Muslim.

In 1863 Victor Guérin found it to have about 200 inhabitants, He further noted: "Sitting on a low hill, [] the houses are built of adobe. Lacking wood and coal, the Arabs of this locality, as well as many others in Palestine, make fire with sun-dried cow dung in the shape of rounded clods. They feed on water at a well of modern date, because the ancient well is dry." "This village [] must certainly succeed an ancient village".

An Ottoman village list from about 1870 counted 35 houses and a population of 148, though  the population count included men, only.

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described the place as: "a small village of the same class" (as Shahma).

British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Saidum had a population of 124 inhabitants, all Muslims,  increasing in the 1931 census to 174, still all Muslims, in a total of 35 houses.

In the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 210 Muslims with a total of 7,487  dunums of land. 49 dunums of land was used for plantations and irrigable land, 5,247 dunums were used for cereals, while 15 dunams were classified as built-up public areas.



Post 1948
In 1992 the village site was described: "Cactuses and numerous grapevines grow on the site. Only one stone house remains; it has a flat roof and a round-arched door and is used for storage. The surrounding land are used for agriculture by Israelis."