sentences:  In 1863 Victor Guérin described it as a "village now reduced to a few huts, but that once had been much more considerable, judging by two beautiful wells dug in the rock and by a number of great stones scattered here and there".An Ottoman village list of about 1870 showed that Ra'na had 8 houses and a population of 30, though the population count included men, only.In 1882, the PEF's "Survey of Western Palestine" described Ra'na as a village built of stone and adobe, and it had a pool and gardens.