Al-Tira, Ramla
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| Arabic | طيرة دندن |
| Name meaning | "The Fort" |
| Subdistrict | Ramle |
| Coordinates | 32°01′02″N 34°56′35″E / 32.01722°N 34.94306°ECoordinates: 32°01′02″N 34°56′35″E / 32.01722°N 34.94306°E |
| Palestine grid | 144/158 |
| Population | 1,290 (1945) |
| Area | 6,956 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | July 10, 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Tirat Yehuda,Giv'at Ko'ah,Bareket |
Al-Tira was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 10, 1948 by the Alexandroni and Armored (Eighth) brigades under Operation Dani. It was located 12 km northeast of Ramla. al-Tira was mostly destroyed with the exception of a few houses survived destruction.
Archeological remains from Early Bronze age,Iron Age II,Hellenistic and Roman era have been found.
A wine-press, dating to late Roman or early Byzantine era have been excavated, together with a cistern, dating from the pre-Byzantine era.
Crusader era remains have been found, together with remains from the Mamluk era.
In 1517, Tira was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire along with the rest of Palestine, and by 1596 it was a part of the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Ramla, which was under the administration of the liwa ("district") of Gaza. A village of 26 households and 3 bachelors, an estimated 160 persons, Muslims. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, vineyards, fruit trees, beehives, and goats, a total of 6,800 akçe.
In 1870, Victor Guérin found it to be a “village of seven hundred inhabitants, with gardens planted with fig trees and pomegranates, separated from each other by hedges of cactus.” Guérin also found here caves and a tomb cut in the rock; also, still standing, the door of an ancient house, its two jambs formed of great cut stones covered by a splendid block forming the lintel, and formerly decorated by mouldings, now effaced. An Ottoman village list from about the same year (1870) indicated 54 houses and a population of 385, though the population count included men only.
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