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Jarba

Coordinates: 32°23′08″N 35°15′22″E / 32.38556°N 35.25611°E / 32.38556; 35.25611
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Jarba
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicجربا
Jarba is located in State of Palestine
Jarba
Jarba
Location of Jarba within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°23′08″N 35°15′22″E / 32.38556°N 35.25611°E / 32.38556; 35.25611
Palestine grid174/199
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateJenin
Government
 • TypeVillage council
Population
 (2017)[1]
 • Total63
Name meaningEl Jŭrbah, the plantation[2]

Jarba (Arabic: جربا) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate.

History

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Pottery sherds from the Byzantine (10%), early Muslim (30%) and the Middle Ages (30%) have been found at Jarba.[3]

Ottoman era

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Jarba, like all of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. About 30% of the pottery sherds found in the village date back to this period.[3] In the 1596 Ottoman tax registers, it was located in the nahiya of Jabal Sami, part of Sanjak of Nablus. Jarba was listed as an entirely Muslim village with a population of 11 households and 2 bachelors. The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, and goats and/or beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a tax on people from the Nablus area, a total of 1,500 akçe.[4]

In 1838 el-Jurba was noted as a village in the District of esh-Sha'rawiyeh esh-Shurkiyeh, the eastern part.[5][6]

In 1870, Victor Guérin noted it as a small village situated on a neighboring hill from Misilyah.[7]

In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Jurba as: "a small village on the side of a slope, with olives to the south."[8]

British Mandate era

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In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jarba had a population of 31 Muslims,[9] increasing in the 1931 census to 65 Muslim, in a total of 17 houses.[10]

In the 1944/5 statistics the population was 100, all Muslims,[11] with 3,530 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[12] 100 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,553 for cereals,[13] while 2 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[14]

Jordanian era

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In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Jarba came under Jordanian rule.

post-1967

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Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Jarba has been under Israeli occupation.

Byzantine site at Nazlat Rahal

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Just southwest of Jarba is Nazlat Rahal,[15] where Byzantine ceramics have been found.[16] SWP found at Kh. Haj Rah-hal: "traces of ruins."[17]

References

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  1. ^ Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report). State of Palestine. February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  2. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 183
  3. ^ a b Zertal, 2004, pp. 226- 227
  4. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 129
  5. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 153
  6. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 129
  7. ^ Guérin, 1874, p. 344
  8. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 196
  9. ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
  10. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 68
  11. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 Archived 2018-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54
  13. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98
  14. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 148
  15. ^ Kh. el Haj Rahhâl, the ruin of el Hâj (Pilgrim) Rahhâl; according to Palmer, 1881, p. 185
  16. ^ Dauphin, 1998, p. 756
  17. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 156

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