Rantiya
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| Arabic | رنتيّة |
| Name meaning | Rantieh, from a personal name |
| Also spelled | Rantieh, Rantia, Rentie |
| Subdistrict | Jaffa |
| Coordinates | 32°2′40″N 34°55′17″E / 32.04444°N 34.92139°ECoordinates: 32°2′40″N 34°55′17″E / 32.04444°N 34.92139°E |
| Palestine grid | 142/161 |
| Population | 590 (1945) |
| Area | 4,389 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | 10 July 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Mazor,Nofekh,Rinatia |
Rantiya (Arabic: رنتيّة, known to the Romans as Rantia and to the Crusaders as Rentie) was a Palestinian village, located 16 kilometers east of Jaffa. During the British Mandate in Palestine, in 1945 it had a population of 590 inhabitants.
Those inhabitants became refugees after a 10 July 1948 assault by Israeli forces from the Palmach's Eighth Armored Brigade and the Third Infantry Battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
Of the over 100 houses that made up the village, only three remain standing today. The Jewish localities of Mazor, Nofekh, and Rinatia are located on Rantiya's former lands.
The village was situated on a low mound on an ancient site.
During the Crusader era the village was known as Rentie, Rantia, or Rentia.
In 1122 the tithes of the village were granted to the hospital of the church of St John at Nablus. In 1166, the tithes were granted to the Knights Hospitaller. A vaulted building in the village, named al-Baubariya, has been dated to the Crusader period.
Rantiya, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in 1557 the revenues of the village were designated for the new waqf of Hasseki Sultan Imaret in Jerusalem, established by Hasseki Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana), wife of Suleiman the Magnificent. In the late 1550s, local disturbances decreased the income from the village by nearly 40%.
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