page_title: Saydun
section_title: British Mandate era
hierarchical_section_title: Saydun / History / British Mandate era
caption_attribution_description: English: Khulda 1942 1:20,000
context_page_description: Saydun was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 6, 1948 during Operation Nachshon. It was located 9 km south of Ramla on the east bank of Wadi Saydun.
context_section_description: In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Saidum had a population of 124 inhabitants, all  Muslims,  increasing in the 1931 census to 174, still all Muslims, in a total of 35 houses.
  In the 1945 statistics  the village had a population of 210 Muslims with a total of 7,487  dunums of land. 49 dunums of land was used for plantations and irrigable land, 5,247 dunums were used for cereals,  while 15 dunams were classified as built-up public areas.
caption: Saydun (Sidun) 1942 1:20,000
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