Conventional Long Name: | Beersheba Subdistrict قضاء بئر السبع נפת באר שבע |
Common Name: | Beersheba Subdistrict |
Subdivision: | Subdistrict |
Nation: | Mandatory Palestine |
Year Start: | 1920 |
Year End: | 1948 |
P1: | Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem |
Flag P1: | Flag of the Ottoman Empire (Thicker Crescent).svg |
Border P1: | border |
S1: | All-Palestine Government |
Flag S1: | Flag of Hejaz 1917.svg |
Border S1: | no |
S2: | Israel |
Flag S2: | Flag of Israel.svg |
Border S2: | no |
Capital: | Beersheba |
Stat Pop1: | 75254 |
Stat Year1: | 1922 |
Stat Pop2: | 51082[1] |
Stat Year2: | 1931 |
Stat Area3: | 12577 |
Stat Pop3: | 90507 |
Stat Year3: | 1945 |
Today: | (Southern District) |
The Beersheba Subdistrict (Arabic: قضاء بئر السبع; Hebrew: נפת באר שבע) was one of the subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine. It was located in modern-day southern Israel. The city of Beersheba was the capital. After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the subdistrict largely transformed into the Beersheba Subdistrict of Israel.
The vast majority of the population, approximately 90%, consisted of nomadic Palestinian Bedouins.
See main article: article and Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel. (current localities in parentheses)