Zayta, Hebron
Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 31.640, 34.824
Why it was abandoned
❔ Cause unknown
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History
Zayta was a Palestinian Arab village in the Hebron Subdistrict in Mandate Palestine. During Crusader rule in Palestine, the village is mentioned as forming part of the landholdings of the Order of St. John. At the time of the rule of the Ottoman Empire, according to the 1596 census, Zayta had a population of 165. Mentioned by Western travellers to the region in the 19th century, it is described by one as, "a picturesque Arab village"; by 1945, its population was 330 inhabitants.