'Anin

'Anin
Other transcription(s)
 • Arabic عانين
'Anin
Location of 'Anin within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°30′05″N 35°10′04″E / 32.50139°N 35.16778°E / 32.50139; 35.16778Coordinates: 32°30′05″N 35°10′04″E / 32.50139°N 35.16778°E / 32.50139; 35.16778
Palestine grid 165/211
Governorate Jenin
Government
 • Type Village council
Population (2006)
 • Jurisdiction 3,719
Name meaning from personal name, or possibly from fountain[1]

'Anin (Arabic: عانين‎) a Palestinian village in the West Bank governorate of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 3,719 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.[2]

History

Potsherds from Iron Age I,[3] IA II,[3] Persian,[3] early and late Roman,[3] Byzantine,[3] early Muslim and the Middle ages have been found here.[3]

"Immediately north of the village is a rock-cut passage large enough to walk along, extending about 50 feet and lined with cement; it then becomes about a foot high. This leads out on to a flat surface of rock.(...) Two rock-cut tombs, now blocked, exist west of this."[4][5]

Ottoman era

'Anin, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596 it was a part of the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Sahil Atlit which was under the administration of the liwa ("district") of Lajjun. The village had a population of 16 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, in addition to occasional revenues and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 3,600 akçe.[6] Potsherds from the Ottoman era have also been found here.[3]

In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described Anin as: "a small village on a ridge, partly built of stone, with a small olive grove beneath it on the west, and two wells on that side. It has the appearance of an ancient site, having rock-cut tombs, and a curious channel for water."[7]

British mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village had a population of 360 Muslims,[8] increasing in the 1931 census to 447 Muslims, in 68 houses.[9]

In the 1944/5 statistics the population of Anin was 590 Muslims,[10] with a total of 15,049 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[11] Of this, 1,769 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,806 dunams for cereals,[12] while 13 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[13]

Jordanian era

After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, 'Anin came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 752 inhabitants.[14]

Post-1967

'Anin has been under Israeli occupation along with the rest of the West Bank after the 1967 Six-Day War.

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 143
  2. ↑ Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Zertal, 2016, pp. 127-130
  4. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 51
  5. ↑ Dauphin, 1998, p. 748
  6. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 159
  7. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 44
  8. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 30
  9. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 67
  10. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16
  11. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54
  12. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98
  13. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 148
  14. ↑ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25

Bibliography

  • Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
  • Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. ISBN 0-860549-05-4.
  • Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics (1964). First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population (PDF).
  • Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
  • Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
  • Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
  • Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
  • Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Zertal, A. (2016). The Manasseh Hill Country Survey. 3. Boston: BRILL. ISBN 9004312307.
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