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Bashshit

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Bashshayt (بشيت), also Beshshayt, was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict, located 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 ("prophet Seth") in the village. Like much the rest of Palestine, Bashshayt was ruled by the Crusaders, Mamluks, Ottomans and the British. It was depopulated at the beginning of the 1948 Palestine war during Operation Barak. Along with the villages of Barqa, Bayt Daras, al-Batani al-Sharqi, and al-Maghar, among others, Bashshayt was attacked by Haganah's Givati Brigade. Following its depopulation, Bashshayt was mostly destroyed. There are seven Israeli localities now situated on what were the village lands. Place names of Palestine According to the Palestine Exploration Fund, Beshshayt stands for Beit Shayt, meaning "house of Seth. The tomb of Neby Shit ("prophet Seth") was in Bashshayt, and other sanctuaries for him in the region included one in Samaria (Haram en Neby Shayt), as well as Al-Nabi Shayth further north in Lebanon. The tomb lies within a triple-domed mosque of the same name located on the side of a hill that lay in the center of the former village. Pottery remains from the early Islamic era and a coin from the Umayyad era (697–750 CE) have been found here, together with pottery remains from the 12th–13th centuries CE. During the Crusader period in Palestine, Bashshayt was referred to as Basit. It is documented in the writings of Yaqut al-Hamawi (died 1228) who mentioned it in his Mu'jam, describing its proximity to al-Ramla. Coins from the Mamluk era (14th century CE) have been found here. Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali gave an account of the village in the 17th century, noting that the Arab scholar Jamal al-Bashshiti (d.1417) was from the village. In 1838 it was noted as a village, Beshayt, in the Gaza district.
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