Rantiya (, known to the Romans as Rantia and to the Crusaders as Rentie) was a Palestinian village, located 16 kilometers east of Jaffa. During the British Mandate in Palestine, in 1945 it had a population of 590 inhabitants. Those inhabitants became refugees after a 10 July 1948 assault by Israeli forces from the Palmach's Eighth Armored Brigade and the Third Infantry Battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Of the over 100 houses that made up the village, only three remain standing today. The Jewish localities of Mazor, Nofekh, and Rinatia are located on Rantiya's former lands. History The village was situated on a low mound on an ancient site. During the Crusader era the village was known as Rentie, Rantia, or Rentia. In 1122 the tithes of the village were granted to the hospital of the church of St John at Nablus. In 1166, the tithes were granted to the Knights Hospitaller. A vaulted building in the village, named al-Baubariya, has been dated to the Crusader period. Ottoman era Rantiya, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in 1557 the revenues of the village were designated for the new waqf of Hasseki Sultan Imaret in Jerusalem, established by Hasseki Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana), wife of Suleiman the Magnificent. In the late 1550s, local disturbances decreased the income from the village by nearly 40%. In 1596, Rantiya was a village in the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Ramla ( liwa' ("district") of Gaza), with a population of 132. Villagers paid taxes to the authorities for the crops that they cultivated, which included wheat, barley, fruit, and sesame as well as on other types of property, such as goats and beehives. All the villagers were Muslim. All of the revenues; a total of 5,300 Akçe, went to a Waqf. In 1838 it was noted as a Muslim village called Rentieh in the Lydda administrative region, while in 1856 the village was named Renthieh on Kiepert's map of Palestine published that year. In 1870 the French explorer Victor Guérin visited and described the village as partially destroyed, while an Ottoman village list from about the same year showed that Rantiya had 33 houses and a population of 116, though the population count included men only. In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine found Rantiya to be a small village built of adobe bricks.