Rantiya

Infobox Former Arab villages in Palestine
name=Rantiya


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arname=رنتيّة
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altSp=Rantia, Rentie
district=jf
population=590
popyear=1945
area=4,389
areakm=
date=10 July 1948
cause=M
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curlocl=Mazor, Nofekh, Rinatia

Rantiya ( _ar. 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, it had a population of approximately 600 inhabitants.cite web|title=Welcome to Rantiya|publisher=Palestine Remembered|accessdate=2007-12-04|url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/Jaffa/Rantiya/index.html]

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.

History

During the Crusader era, Rentie, along with other coastal towns such as Deirelcobebe and Semsem were the site of Hospitaller castles of the Sovereign Order of the Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta.Ross, KL (2002) [http://www.friesian.com/outremer.htm The Periphery of Francia: Outremer - Kings of Jerusalem and Cyprus, Counts of Edessa, Princes of Antioch, Counts of Tripoli, Kings of Thessalonica, Dukes of Athens, Princes of Achaea, and the Grand Masters of the Military Monastic Orders] "The Proceedings of the Friesian School, Fourth Series"]

References in contemporary culture

In "Soraida: A Woman of Palestine", the main character explains that she named her daughter and son, Rantia and Aram, after Palestinian villages to preserve the memory of the homeland.cite journal|title=This Is Not Living, and: Women in Struggle, and: Soraida, A Woman of Palestine (review)|journal=Journal of Middle East Women's Studies|volume=Volume 2, Number 3|date=Fall 2006|pages=125–130|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/journal_of_middle_east_womens_studies/v002/2.3elia.html]

ee also

*List of villages depopulated during the Arab-Israeli conflict

References