Bayt Umm al-Mays
Bayt Umm al-Mays
بيت أم الميس | |
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| Etymology: The house of the meis-tree (Cordia myxa) | |
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Bayt Umm al-Mays (click the buttons) | |
Bayt Umm al-Mays Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°46′49″N 35°04′49″E / 31.78028°N 35.08028°E | |
| Palestine grid | 157/131 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Jerusalem |
| Date of depopulation | October 21, 1948 |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,013 dunams (1.013 km2; 0.391 sq mi) |
| Population (1945) | |
• Total | 70 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
Bayt Umm al-Mays was a small Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Sub-district, located 14 km west of Jerusalem..
The village was established and settled during the late British Mandatory period, and had 70 inhabitants in 1945. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 21, 1948, by the Har'el Brigade of Operation ha-Har.