Khirbat Bayt Lid

Khirbat Bayt Lid

خربة بيت لد
Khirbet Beit Lid^[1]
Khirbat Bayt Lid خربة بيت لد Khirbet Beit Lid
Village
	Etymology: El Mughair=the caves
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Khirbat Bayt Lid (click the buttons)
	Khirbat Bayt Lid Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 32°19′04″N 34°53′33″E / 32.31778°N 34.89250°E
Palestine grid	140/191
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Tulkarm
Date of depopulation	5 April 1948
Area (2,969 Arab, 2,220 Jewish)
• Total	5,336 dunams (5.336 km2 or 2.060 sq mi)
Population
• Total	460
Cause(s) of depopulation	Fear of being caught up in the fighting
Current Localities	Nordia

Khirbat Bayt Lid (Arabic: خربة بيت لد) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict. It was depopulated by its Arab inhabitants during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

^ ^a ^b Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #189. Also gives cause of depopulation
^ Palmer, 1881, p. 175
^ ^a ^b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 75
^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 21
^ Morris, 2004, p. xxi, settlement #23.
^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 550.

Khirbat Bayt Lid خربة بيت لد Khirbet Beit Lid^[1]
Village
Etymology: El Mughair=the caves^[2]
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Khirbat Bayt Lid (click the buttons)
Khirbat Bayt Lid Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°19′04″N 34°53′33″E / 32.31778°N 34.89250°E / 32.31778; 34.89250
Palestine grid	140/191
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Tulkarm
Date of depopulation	5 April 1948^[1]
Area (2,969 Arab, 2,220 Jewish)^[3]
• Total	5,336 dunams (5.336 km² or 2.060 sq mi)
Population ^[4]^[3]
• Total	460
Cause(s) of depopulation	Fear of being caught up in the fighting
Current Localities	Nordia^[5]^[6]