Yibna

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Yibna is a historic Palestinian town in the coastal plain of central Israel, known for its ancient roots and depopulation during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

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Label Occurrences
Yibna canonical 2

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Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf former Palestinian Arab town
historic town
alsoKnownAs Yabneh
Yavne
linked to: Yavneh
arabicName يبنا
country Mandatory Palestine
dateOfDepopulation 1948
depopulatedBy Israeli forces
depopulatedDuring 1948 Arab–Israeli War
governedBy Gaza subdistrict during Ottoman period
Ramla subdistrict during British Mandate
hadPopulationCharacteristic predominantly Arab
hasAncientName Iamnia
Jamnia
hasArchaeologicalSite Tel Yavne
hasCrop citrus
grains
vegetables
hasEconomicActivity agriculture
hasHistoricalPeriod British Mandate period
Byzantine period
Canaanite period
Crusader period
Early Islamic period
Hellenistic period
Mamluk period
linked to: Mamluk Sultanate

Ottoman period
Philistine period
Roman period
linked to: Roman Antiquity
hasNotableStructure Crusader fortress remains
Great Mosque of Yibna
locatedIn Central District of Israel
Palestine
coastal plain of central Israel
locatedNear Lydda
Mediterranean Sea
Ramla
locatedNorthOf Gaza
linked to: Gaza Strip
locatedSouthOf Jaffa
Tel Aviv
mentionedIn Roman sources as Jamnia
Talmudic literature as Yavne
religionInhabitants Christian
Muslim
successorSettlement Beit Raban
Ben Zakai
Kfar HaNagid
Yavne
linked to: Yavneh
wasIncorporatedInto British Mandate for Palestine
Ottoman Empire

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Referenced by (2)

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Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi placeOfBirth Yibna
subject linked to: al-Rantisi