Ra'na

Ra'na
Ra'na
Arabic	رعنة
Name meaning	The spur of a Hill
Subdistrict	Hebron
Coordinates	31°39′54″N 34°52′37″E / 31.66500°N 34.87694°E / 31.66500; 34.87694Coordinates: 31°39′54″N 34°52′37″E / 31.66500°N 34.87694°E / 31.66500; 34.87694
Palestine grid	138/119
Population	190 (1945)
Area	6.925 dunams
Date of depopulation	22–23 October 1948
Cause(s) of depopulation	Military assault by Yishuv forces
Current localities	Gal On

Ra'na (Arabic: رعنة‎‎) was a village located approximately 26 km northwest of Hebron. It was occupied by the Israeli army during Operation Yo'av in October 1948. It was one of 16 villages in the Hebron district that were depopulated.

During the rule of the Ottoman empire, Edward Robinson passed by in 1838, and reported that the fields of Ra'na were planted with tobacco and cotton.

In 1863 Victor Guérin described it as a "village now reduced to a few huts, but that once had been much more considerable, judging by two beautiful wells dug in the rock and by a number of great stones scattered here and there". An Ottoman village list of about 1870 showed that Ra'na had 8 houses and a population of 30, though the population count included men, only.

In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described Ra'na as a village built of stone and adobe, and it had a pool and gardens.

Ra'na was classified as hamlet by the Palestine Index Gazetteer. In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Ra'ana had a population of 126 inhabitants, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 150, still all Muslim, in a total of 36 inhabited houses.

In 1945 the population of Ra'na was 190, all Muslims. In 1944/45 a total of 5,882 dunums of land was planted with cereals, while 112 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Grain was the dominant crop, but during the final year of the British Mandate of Palestine, the villagers also grew grapes, carob and olives. 14 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) areas.

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