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Capital of Palestine in the early Islamic period.
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Ramla is located in the southern coastal plain of Palestine roughly equidistant between Gaza and Jerusalem. The city was founded in 712 by the Umayyad caliph Sulayman as an alternative to nearby Lydda which had a predominantly Christian population.
Little remains from the early Islamic period, although the White Mosque to the north-east of the modern town preserves the shape of the Umayyad mosque, whilst the cistern known as Birket al-'Anaziya was built during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun...
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M. Ben-Dov and M. Rosen Ayalon. 'Ramla', in New
Encyclopaedia of Excavations in the Holy Land, Jerusalem
1993.
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A. D. Petersen. 'A preliminary report on a survey of
historic buildings in Ramla', Levant 25; 1995, 75-101.
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