Al-Batani al-Sharqi
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| Arabic | البطاني الشرقي |
| Name meaning | The eastern Butani |
| Subdistrict | Gaza |
| Coordinates | 31°45′07″N 34°43′24″E / 31.75194°N 34.72333°ECoordinates: 31°45′07″N 34°43′24″E / 31.75194°N 34.72333°E |
| Palestine grid | 123/128 |
| Population | 650 (1945) |
| Area | 5,764 dunams 5.8 km² |
| Date of depopulation | May 13, 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | None |
Al-Batani al-Sharqi (Arabic: البطاني الشرقي) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict, located 36.5 kilometers (22.7 mi) northeast of Gaza situated in the flat terrain on the southern coastal plain of Palestine. It had a population of 650 in 1945. Al-Batani al-Sharqi was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here, together with coins from reigns of Phocas and Constantine IV.
One mention of al-Batani indicates that it was founded as a ranch by the Umayyad caliph Mu'awiyah I in the 8th century CE.
Al-Batani al-Sharqi, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the tax registers of 1596, it was a village in the nahiya of Gaza, east of Isdud, north of Bayt Daras and part of the Sanjak of Gaza with a population of 39. Al-Batani paid taxes on wheat, barley, fruit, beehives, goats, and vineyards. The whole population was Muslim. The village appeared as an unnamed village on the map of Pierre Jacotin compiled in 1799.
In 1863 the French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village which he called Bathanieh Ech-Charkieh. He found about one hundred adobe brick houses, and ancient stones laying on the ground nea a well. Tobacco plantations grew in gardens surrounded by cactus hedges.
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