Qastina
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Place details
- Locality
- מועצה אזורית באר טוביה
- Region
- מחוז הדרום
- Country
- ישראל
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Qastina
- Settlement.native_name
- قسطينة
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.other_name
- Kastina
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Qastina12.png
- Settlement.image_caption
- Shepherd with sheep in Qastina, before 1948
- Settlement.etymology
- El Kustîneh, Kŭstîleh, i.e., Castellum
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.map_caption
- A series of historical maps of the area around Qastina (click the buttons)
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 200
- Settlement.grid_name
- Palestine grid
- Settlement.grid_position
- 127/127
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Geopolitical entity
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Subdistrict
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Gaza
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Mandatory Palestine
- Located in
- Gaza Subdistrict
- Population
- 890
- Area
- 12.019
- Image
- Qastina12.png
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Location
- History
- Ottoman period
- British Mandate period
- 1948 war
- Israel after 1948 war
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Qastina () was a Palestinian village, located 38 kilometers northeast of Gaza City. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
==Location== Qastina was situated on an elevated spot in a generally flat area on the coastal plain, on the highway between al-Majdal and the Jerusalem-Jaffa highway. A British military camp, Beer Tuvia, was 3 km. southwest of the village.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qastina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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