Sajad
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Remains of Sajad Railway platform.
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| Arabic | سجد |
| Name meaning | Kh. es Sejed, the ruin of adoration |
| Subdistrict | Ramle |
| Coordinates | 31°47′01″N 34°53′34″E / 31.78361°N 34.89278°ECoordinates: 31°47′01″N 34°53′34″E / 31.78361°N 34.89278°E |
| Palestine grid | 139/132 |
| Population | 370 (1945) |
| Area | 2,795 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | 1948 |
| Current localities | Israeli military zone |
Sajad (Arabic: سجد) was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict. It was located sixteen kilometers south of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli war.
In 1838, Sejad was noted as a place "in ruins or deserted."
The village of Sajad was the site of a railway station built by the French in Ottoman era Palestine. In August 1892, the Jaffa–Jerusalem railway service was initiated; the train stopped in Sajad. The station was closed after a new railway line and station were built at nearby Wadi Sarar in 1915.
The land which the villagers cultivated, was at one time owned by the Ottoman sultan Abd al-Hamid, but it was taken from him by the Ottoman government in 1908. After this, the village land was classified as jiftlik land, owned by the government but leased on a long-term basis to the villagers.
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Sajad had a population of 221 inhabitants, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 300, still all Muslims, in a total of 66 houses.
The village did not have a school on its own, but in 1945-46 it started sending its students to a school in Qazaza, a village to the southeast.
In 1945 the population was 370, all Muslims, while the total land area was 2,795 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, a total of 1,687 dunums of land were used for cereals, while 19 dunams were classified as built-up public areas.
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