Bashshit
Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- 1,620
- Coordinates
- 31.824, 34.747
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Archaeological artifacts from the village attest to habitation in the Early Islamic period and 12th and 13th centuries.
History
Bashshayt, also Beshshayt, was an Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict, located 16.5 kilometers (10.3 mi) southwest of Ramla about half a mile from wadi Bashshit. Archaeological artifacts from the village attest to habitation in the Early Islamic period and 12th and 13th centuries. Mentioned by Arab geographers from the 13th century onward, there was a tomb for the Neby Shayt in the village.