  danna () was a palestinian village 13 kilometres north of baysan that was captured by the israel defense forces during the 1948 arab-israeli war.morris, 2004, p. xvii village #111. also gives cause of depopulation. ==history== in 1596, danna was part of the ottoman empire, nahiya (subdistrict) of shafa under the liwa' (district) of lajjun with a population of 5 muslim families. it paid taxes to the ottoman government on a number of crops, including wheat and barley, and other types of produce, such as goats and beehives.hÃ¼tteroth, wolf-dieter and kamal abdulfattah (1977), historical geography of palestine, transjordan and southern syria in the late 16th century. erlanger geographische arbeiten, sonderband 5. erlangen, germany: vorstand der frÃ¤nkischen geographischen gesellschaft. p. 157. johann ludwig burckhardt, a swiss traveler to palestine who passed through the area around 1817, mentioned the village without providing an description.burckhardt, 1822, p.342.also cited in khalidi 1992, p. 46 (wrongly cited to p. 842) in the late nineteenth century, the village of danna was situated on a slope, and was surrounded by farmland. there was a spring with a watering trough to the west. the village houses were built of stone and mud.conder, claude reignier and h.h. kitchener: the survey of western palestine. london: committee of the palestine exploration fund, 1881, ii, p.83. quoted in khalidi, 1992, p.46 at the time of the 1931 census, danna had 28 occupied houses and a population of 149 muslims. the village was shaped like a rectangle whose longer sides were aligned in a north-south direction. during the british mandate the village expanded and new houses, constructed of stone and adobe brick, were built along the road to the nearby village of kafra. it was classified in this period as a hamlet in the palestine index gazetteer. there were a few shops and a mosque which contained the shrine of a shaykh daniyal. the village spring provided water for all the residents, who all were muslim. the villagers worked pri
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