Tall al-Turmus
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| Arabic | تل الترمس |
| Name meaning | "The mound of the lupine" |
| Also spelled | Tell at-Turmus |
| Subdistrict | Gaza |
| Coordinates | 31°43′30″N 34°46′22″E / 31.72500°N 34.77278°ECoordinates: 31°43′30″N 34°46′22″E / 31.72500°N 34.77278°E |
| Palestine grid | 128/125 |
| Population | 760 (1945) |
| Area | 11,508 dunams 11.5 km² |
| Date of depopulation | July, 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
| Current localities | Timorim |
Tall al-Turmus (Arabic: تل الترمس) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict, located on a low hill on the coastal plain of Palestine, 38 kilometers (24 mi) northeast of Gaza. In 1945, it had a population of 760 and a land area of 11,508 dunams. The village was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
In 1838, Edward Robinson saw Tall al-Turmus located northwest of Tell es-Safi, where he was staying. He further noted that the name meant "Hill of lupines".
In 1863 the French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village, where he found about 100 houses. The villagers had a very deep well, and used animals to draw water from it. An Ottoman village list of about 1870 counted 17 houses and a population of 34, though the population count included men only.
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Tall al-Turnus had a population of 384 inhabitants, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census, to 504 Muslims in 136 houses.
In 1945 the population of Tell et Turmus consisted of 760, all Muslims, and the total land area was 11,508 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 154 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 627 for plantations and irrigable land, 10,403 for cereals, while 35 dunams were built-up areas.
The villagers constructed their houses of adobe, building them first on the hill and later expanding the village site eastward and westward. It shared a school with the neighboring village of Qastina, and the school had 160 pupils by the mid-1940s. Agriculture was the mainstay of the economy.
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