In the last hundred years, our definition of what constitutes a town or city has changed. We are used to vast agglomerations with populations of millions. In 1900 there were few cities with more than a million inhabitants, and any population center with more than a few hundred persons could be considered a town - today, we would probably call them villages. Other than Jerusalem, Palestine in 1900 had several large (for the time) towns, including Nazareth, Nablus, al Khalil (Hebron), Ramallah, Lydda, Jaffa, and several others. But most life went on in villages, with a few dozen or a few hundred souls. Of these, Benny Morris and others have documented over 400 which were either taken over or destroyed in the years after 1948.