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Beersheba Subdistrict قضاء بئر السبع | |||||||||||
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Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine | |||||||||||
1920–1948 | |||||||||||
File:Bir al-Sabe in Palestine 1920-1948.png | |||||||||||
Capital | Beersheba | ||||||||||
Area | |||||||||||
• 1945 | 12,577 km2 (4,856 sq mi) | ||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||
• 1922 | 75,254[1] | ||||||||||
• 1931 | 51,082[1] | ||||||||||
• 1945 | 90,507 | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
• Established | 1920 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1948 | ||||||||||
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Today part of | Israel |
The Beersheba Subdistrict (Template:Lang-ar) was one of the subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine. It was located in modern-day southern Israel. The city of Beersheba was the capital. After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the subdistrict disintegrated.
Depopulated towns and villages
(current localities in parentheses)
- Auja al-Hafir (Nessana)
- Beersheba
- al-Imara (Ofakim, Urim)
- al-Jammama (Ruhama)
- al-Khalasa
- Umm al-Rashrash (Eilat)
References
- ^ a b "سكان قضاء بئر السبع - بلادنا فلسطين، صفحة 330". Palestine Remembered. Retrieved 13 May 2013.