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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
and page 141). This place was supposed to represent the ancient Gezer (Joshua x. 33) unti
M. Ganneau, by cleverly following up a clue gathered from
an old Arabian writer, discovered the true site of the royal
Canaanitish city at Tel Gezer, near Abu Shusheh. This
discovery was confirmed by some inscriptions in Hebrew and
Greek characters which he found there, engraved on a rock.
Not far from Yazur the road forks : a path to the left
leads to Ludd (Lydda, see page 145). We kept to the right
and rode on in the darkness over the undulating plain. At
about nine o'clock the tall isolated tower of Ramleh rose to
view on our right. We hurried onwards through the olive
groves and soon entered the town of Ramleh, where a kindly
welcome awaited us.
Ramleh is a purely Arabic word, and signifies "sandy."
According to Arab historians the city was founded by the
Khalif Suleiman, son of Abd el Melik, a.d. 716. The first
notice of it by a European
writer is in " The Voyage of
Bernard the Wise." He calls
it " Ramula," and passed
through it on his way to
Emmaus (see page 152), in
a.d. 867, when it must have
already become a place of
importance, for many coins
of the Omeiyad and Abbaside
khalifs had been struck there.
Marasid el 'Ittila'a describes
Er Ramleh as " formerly the
capital of Filastin." Its ori-
ginal boundaries extended far
beyond the present unwalled
town. Ramleh passed through
many vicissitudes during the
time of the Crusades. It
was held by the Crusaders
from a.d. 1 204 to 1 266, when ^0^0^}- ^^^Z^^a. ^^W1.
it was finally taken by Sultan the tower at ramleh.
AT 1 1 1 pi 1 -p'l Said to be the minaret of a large mosque which once stood here. According to an Arab
lVleleK ed. JJalier JjlbarS. inscription over the door, it was built in the year 1318. It is known as the White Mosque.
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
and page 141). This place was supposed to represent the ancient Gezer (Joshua x. 33) unti
M. Ganneau, by cleverly following up a clue gathered from
an old Arabian writer, discovered the true site of the royal
Canaanitish city at Tel Gezer, near Abu Shusheh. This
discovery was confirmed by some inscriptions in Hebrew and
Greek characters which he found there, engraved on a rock.
Not far from Yazur the road forks : a path to the left
leads to Ludd (Lydda, see page 145). We kept to the right
and rode on in the darkness over the undulating plain. At
about nine o'clock the tall isolated tower of Ramleh rose to
view on our right. We hurried onwards through the olive
groves and soon entered the town of Ramleh, where a kindly
welcome awaited us.
Ramleh is a purely Arabic word, and signifies "sandy."
According to Arab historians the city was founded by the
Khalif Suleiman, son of Abd el Melik, a.d. 716. The first
notice of it by a European
writer is in " The Voyage of
Bernard the Wise." He calls
it " Ramula," and passed
through it on his way to
Emmaus (see page 152), in
a.d. 867, when it must have
already become a place of
importance, for many coins
of the Omeiyad and Abbaside
khalifs had been struck there.
Marasid el 'Ittila'a describes
Er Ramleh as " formerly the
capital of Filastin." Its ori-
ginal boundaries extended far
beyond the present unwalled
town. Ramleh passed through
many vicissitudes during the
time of the Crusades. It
was held by the Crusaders
from a.d. 1 204 to 1 266, when ^0^0^}- ^^^Z^^a. ^^W1.
it was finally taken by Sultan the tower at ramleh.
AT 1 1 1 pi 1 -p'l Said to be the minaret of a large mosque which once stood here. According to an Arab
lVleleK ed. JJalier JjlbarS. inscription over the door, it was built in the year 1318. It is known as the White Mosque.