Al-Faluja
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al-Faluja was a Palestinian Arab village in the British Mandate for Palestine, located 30 kilometers northeast of Gaza City. Al-Faluja absorbed settlers from various areas, including Dura.
Souk in Faluja, pre 1948
Faluja 1931 1:20,000
Faluja and surroundings 1945 1:250,000
Palestinian civilians and Israeli soldiers in al-Faluja after the Israeli army entered the village, 1949
Gaza Sanjak
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Gaza Sanjak, known in Arabic as Bilād Ghazza, was a sanjak of the Damascus Eyalet, Ottoman Empire centered in Gaza, northwards up to the Nahr al-‘Awja/the Yarkon River. In the 16th century it was divided into nawahi : Gaza in the south and Ramla in the north along the Nahr Rūbīn/Wādī al-Ṣarār.
