Qula
Sign in to saveQula () was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, located 15 km northeast of Ramla. Its residents had their origins in Jimzu, Ammuriya and other places.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Qula
- Settlement.native_name
- قولة
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.other_name
- Kouleh Cola, Chola
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Former village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Qula-ruins-776.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 200
- Settlement.image_caption
- The remains of the Crusader tower at Qula. The village mosque was located about 10m to the east of it.
- Settlement.etymology
- from a personal name
- 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 Qula (click the buttons)
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 200
- Settlement.grid_name
- Palestine grid
- Settlement.grid_position
- 146/160
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Geopolitical entity
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Subdistrict
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Crusader period
- Ottoman period
- British Mandate
- 1948 Arab-Israeli War and aftermath
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Qula () was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, located 15 km northeast of Ramla. Its residents had their origins in Jimzu, Ammuriya and other places.
Palestinian commander Hasan Salama, and his son Ali Hassan Salameh (1940-1979) were from Qula. The village was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qula” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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