At that time a main road passed right next to it. British Mandate era In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Rantieh had a population of 351, all Muslims. increasing the 1931 census to 411, still all Muslims, in a total of 105 houses. By 1945 the population had increased to 590 Muslims, while the total land area was 4,389 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 505 were allocated for citrus and bananas, 99 were for plantations and irrigable land, 3,518 for cereals, while 13 dunams were classified as built-up areas. 1948, and after In 1992 the village remains were described as "Three deserted houses, standing amid weeds, tall wild grasses, and the debris of several other houses, are all that remains of the village. Two of the deserted houses are made of stone, the third of concrete. All have rectangular doors and windows. Two of them have flat roofs; the third may have had a gabled roof." References in contemporary culture In the film Soraida: A Woman of Palestine, by Tahani Rached, the main character explains that she named her daughter and son, Rantia and Aram, after Palestinian villages to preserve the memory of the homeland. See also List of villages depopulated during the Arab-Israeli conflict References Bibliography External links Welcome To Rantiya Rantiya, Zochrot Survey of Western Palestine, Map 13: IAA, Wikimedia commons Rantiya at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center Ross, KL, 2002, The Periphery of Francia: Outremer - Kings of Jerusalem and Cyprus, Counts of Edessa, Princes of Antioch, Counts of Tripoli, Kings of Thessalonica, Dukes of Athens, Princes of Achaea, and the Grand Masters of the Military Monastic Orders The Proceedings of the Friesian School, Fourth Series District of Jaffa Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War