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The 1948 Palestinian expulsion from Lydda and Ramle, was the expulsion of 50,000 to 70,000 [1] Palestinian Arabs when Israeli troops captured the towns in July that year. The military action occurred within the context of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The operation included the events of the Lydda Massacre and the Lydda Death March.
Lod. Lod (Hebrew: לוד, or fully vocalized לֹד; Arabic: اللِّد, romanized: al-Lidd or al-Ludd), also known as Lydda (Ancient Greek: Λύδδα) and Lidd (colloquial Arabic), is a city 15 km (9⁄ mi) southeast of Tel Aviv and 40 km (25 mi) northwest of Jerusalem in the Central District of Israel. It is situated between the lower ...
38255. Area code. 731. FIPS code. 47-67540 [6] GNIS feature ID. 1301244 [4] Sharon is a town in Weakley County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 988 at the 2000 census and 944 at the 2010 census.
The first passenger service at the new airport was the Misr Airwork route Cairo—Lydda—Nicosia, inaugurated on 3 August 1935. Subsequently, Misr flew via Lydda to Haifa and Baghdad. The first continental European airline with a regular service to Lydda was LOT Polish Airlines since 4 April 1937. By that time, Lydda Airport boasted four fully ...
In early Christian times, Lydda was a prosperous Jewish town [citation needed] located on the intersection of the North – South and Egypt to Babylon roads.. According to the Bible, Lod was founded by Semed of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin; Some of its inhabitants were led into Babylonian exile, part of them returned, but by mid second century, the king of Syria gave it to the Maccabees ...
Ramla (pictured in 1895) was founded by Sulayman at the start of the 8th century and became the capital of his district. The Umayyad prince and governor of Palestine, Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, founded Ramla as the seat of his administration, [6] [7] [8] replacing Lydda, the Muslims' original provincial capital.
As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,461, making it the third-least populous county in Tennessee. [2] It forms a consolidated city-county government with its county seat of Lynchburg. [3] At 130 square miles (340 km 2), it is the second-smallest county in Tennessee, behind only Trousdale.
Most of the state is considered part of the Upland South, and the eastern third is part of Appalachia. [ 1 ] Tennessee covers roughly 42,143 square miles (109,150 km 2), of which 926 square miles (2,400 km 2), or 2.2%, is water. It is the 16th smallest state in terms of land area. The state is about 440 miles (710 km) long from east to west and ...