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Khulda (), also Khuldeh, was a Palestinian Arab village located south of Ramla in the Mandatory Palestine. Known as Huldre to the Crusaders, it is also mentioned in documents dating to the periods of Mamluk, Ottoman, and Mandatory rule over Palestine. During the 1948 war, the village was depopulated as part of Operation Nachshon and was subsequently destroyed. The Israeli kibbutz of Mishmar David was established that same year on land belonging to the village.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Khulda is referenced by 460 other articles, and connects out to Ramla, Lod and Magdala.

It sits within the topics Arab villages depopulated prior to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and District of Ramla.

Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.

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Locality
משמר דוד
Region
מחוז המרכז
Country
ישראל
Population
949

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Country
Palestine
Population
280
Area
9461
Elevation
150
Image
שרידשלחולדה.JPG
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  • History
  • Ottoman era
  • British Mandate era
  • 1948 and aftermath
  • References
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Khulda (), also Khuldeh, was a Palestinian Arab village located south of Ramla in the Mandatory Palestine. Known as Huldre to the Crusaders, it is also mentioned in documents dating to the periods of Mamluk, Ottoman, and Mandatory rule over Palestine. During the 1948 war, the village was depopulated as part of Operation Nachshon and was subsequently destroyed. The Israeli kibbutz of Mishmar David was established that same year on land belonging to the village.

==History== Khulda lay close to a highway connecting Gaza to the Ramla-Jerusalem highway. During the Crusades, the village was known as Huldre. Situated west-south-west of Imwas, prior to the 12th century CE, it lay on the border between the Greek archbishopric of Lydda and the ecclesiastical division of Emmaus, the latter of which was governed directly by archpriest of the Patriarch of Jerusalem.

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