Barbara, Gaza
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A horse race held at Barbara, Palestine, 7th September 1940, with Australian 6th Division troops watching.
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| Arabic | برْبره |
| Name meaning | "Chattering", "barbarians" |
| Also spelled | Berbere |
| Subdistrict | Gaza |
| Coordinates | 31°37′26″N 34°34′46″E / 31.62389°N 34.57944°ECoordinates: 31°37′26″N 34°34′46″E / 31.62389°N 34.57944°E |
| Palestine grid | 110/114 |
| Population | 2,410 (1945) |
| Area | 13,978 dunams 13.9 km² |
| Date of depopulation | November 5th, 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Mavki'im,Talmei Yafeh |
Barbara (Arabic: برْبره) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict located 17 km northeast of Gaza city, in the vicinity of modern Ashkelon. It had an entirely Arab population of 2,410 in 1945. The village consisted of nearly 14,000 dunums of which approximately 12,700 dunums was able to be cultivated. It was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
Barbara received its modern name from the Romans. After the Roman rule the village was under the control of a number of empires and dynasties ranging from the Byzantines, various Islamic Arab dynasties, the Crusaders, the Turkish Mamluks and Ottomans and United Kingdom.
Archeological building and pottery remains from the Late Roman and the Byzantine periods have been excavated here. Coins minted under Nero, Valentinian II, Theodosius I, Justin I and Justinian I were also found. A winepress, dating from the Byzantine period has been found.
A coin, dating from the Umayyad (697–750 CE) era has also been found here
According to the Arab geographer Mujir al-Din (1456–1522), the village was home to the Muslim scholar sheikh Yusuf al-Barbarawi, a local sage and a student of renowned scolar Ahmad ibn Dawud, who died in 1323.
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