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Artuf
Sign in to saveArtuf () was a Palestinian village in the Jerusalem foothills depopulated in 1948. It was situated west of Jerusalem on a high plateau, surrounded by plains on the south, east, and west. The village was on a secondary road that linked it to the main road to Jerusalem.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in city_region, across 2 mapped points.
Within Vinony's link graph, Artuf is referenced by 459 other articles, and connects out to Lod, Magdala and Kedesh.
It is catalogued under topics including 1929 Palestine riots, Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and District of Jerusalem.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- מועצה אזורית מטה יהודה
- Region
- מחוז ירושלים
- Country
- ישראל
- Population
- 597
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Mandatory Palestine
- Elevation
- 250
- Image
- Artuf July 1948.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Ottoman Empire
- British Mandate era
- 1948 Arab–Israeli War and after
- Archaeology
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Artuf () was a Palestinian village in the Jerusalem foothills depopulated in 1948. It was situated west of Jerusalem on a high plateau, surrounded by plains on the south, east, and west. The village was on a secondary road that linked it to the main road to Jerusalem.
==History== ===Ottoman Empire=== Under the Ottoman Empire, in 1596, Artuf was a village in a nahiya ("subdistrict") of Ramla, part of Liwa of Gaza with a population of 110. The villagers paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat, barley and fruit, as well as on goats, beehives and vineyards.
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