Ammuriya, Nablus

'Ammuriya
Other transcription(s)
 • Arabic ﺔﻴﻭﺭﻤﻋ
 • Also spelled 'Amuria (official)
'Amuriya (unofficial)
Jilijliya to the right, Ammuriya to the left.
'Ammuriya
Location of 'Ammuriya within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°4′1″N 35°12′53″E / 32.06694°N 35.21472°E / 32.06694; 35.21472Coordinates: 32°4′1″N 35°12′53″E / 32.06694°N 35.21472°E / 32.06694; 35.21472
Palestine grid 169/163
Governorate Nablus
Government
 • Type Local Development Committee
 • Head of Municipality Sulaiman Hakawati[1]
Population (2007)
 • Jurisdiction 302

'Ammuriya (Arabic: ﺔﻴﻭﺭﻤﻋ‎, also spelled 'Amuria)[2] is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank, located south of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, 'Ammuriya had a population of 302 in 2007. There were 48 households and five business establishments in the village.[3]

Location

Nearby localities include Iskaka to the north, al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya to the east, Abwein to the south, 'Arura and Mazari an-Nubani to the southwest and Salfit to the northwest.

History

Pottery sherds from Iron Age II, Hellenistic/Roman, Crusader/Ayyubid and Mamluk eras have been found here.[4]

Ottoman era

In 1596, it appeared in Ottoman tax registers as "′Ammuriya", a village in the nahiya of Jabal Qubal in the liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 7 households and 1 bachelor, all Muslim. The villagers paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, and a press for olive oils or grapes; a total of 2,000 akçe.[5]

In 1838, Edward Robinson noted it as a village in the Jurat Merda district, south of Nablus.[6][7]

In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described it as "A small village on high ground".[8]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the population was 69, all Muslim,[1][9] increasing in the 1931 census 85 Muslims in 19 houses.[10]

In the 1945 statistics the population was 120, all Muslims,[11] with 3111 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[12] Of this, 1753 dunams were used for cereals,[13] while 6 dunams were built-up land.[14]

Jordanian era

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

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 157 inhabitants.[15]

1967, and aftermath

In 1967 the village came under Israeli occupation after the Six-Day War, and the same year the population was found to be 130.[16]

References

  1. 1 2 Ammuriya Profile. Jerusalem Media and Communications Center (JMCC). 2007-02-09.
  2. ↑ From Amorites, according to Palmer, 1881, p. 225
  3. ↑ 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p. 110.
  4. ↑ Finkelstein and Lederman, 1997, p. 484
  5. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 136
  6. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 82,
  7. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 127
  8. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 283
  9. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 25
  10. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 59
  11. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 18
  12. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 59
  13. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 105
  14. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 155
  15. ↑ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 26
  16. ↑ Perlmann, Joel (November 2011 – February 2012). "The 1967 Census of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Digitized Version" (PDF). Levy Economics Institute. Retrieved 24 June 2016.

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.
  • Finkelstein, I.; Lederman, Zvi, eds. (1997). Highlands of many cultures. Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. ISBN 965-440-007-3.
  • 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.
  • Perlmann, Joel: The 1967 Census of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Digitized Version. Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. November 2011 – February 2012. [Digitized from: Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing, 1967 Conducted in the Areas Administered by the IDF, Vols. 1–5 (1967–70), and Census of Population and Housing: East Jerusalem, Parts 1 and 2 (1968–70).]
  • Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
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