Jilya
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| Arabic | جِليا |
| Name meaning | probably from Gallaa |
| Subdistrict | Ramle |
| Coordinates | 31°46′06″N 34°51′52″E / 31.76833°N 34.86444°ECoordinates: 31°46′06″N 34°51′52″E / 31.76833°N 34.86444°E |
| Palestine grid | 137/130 |
| Population | 330 (1945) |
| Date of depopulation | July 9–10, 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Influence of nearby town's fall |
Jilya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. The Romans referred to it as Jilya by Galla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War by the Givati Brigade of the first stage of Operation Dani on July 9, 1948. It was located 17 km south of Ramla.
The Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) thought that Jilya was the Gallaa of the Onomasticon, mentioned as a town near Accaron.
Jilya, like all of Palestine was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. In the 1596 tax registers, it was listed as an entirely Muslim village, located in the nahiya of Gazza in the liwa of Gazza, with a population of 17 families; an estimated population of 94. The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 2,200 akçe.
In 1882 the SWP described it as "an ordinary village of adobe and stone."
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jilia had a population of 269, all Muslims, increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 271 Muslims, in 63 houses.
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