Anzah

Anzah , 'Anza
Other transcription(s)
 • Arabic عنزه ، عنزا
 • Also spelled A'nza (official)
Anzah , 'Anza
Location of Anzah , 'Anza within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°21′34″N 35°13′11″E / 32.35944°N 35.21972°E / 32.35944; 35.21972Coordinates: 32°21′34″N 35°13′11″E / 32.35944°N 35.21972°E / 32.35944; 35.21972
Palestine grid 170/196
Governorate Jenin
Government
 • Type Village council
Area
 • Jurisdiction 4,740 dunams (4.7 km2 or 1.8 sq mi)
Population (2006)
 • Jurisdiction 2,106
Name meaning The goats[1][2]
Website http://www.anza-council.org

Anzah or 'Anza (Arabic: عنزة‎) is a Palestinian village in the located 18 km southwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. Its total land area consists of 4,740 dunams of which nearly a 1/4 is covered with olive orchards. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,006 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.[3]

History

Pottery sherds from the Byzantine, early Muslim and the Medieval eras have been found here.[4]

Ottoman era

In 1830, during the Ottoman era, when the forces of Bashir Shihab II besieged Sanur, they were harassed by the people of Anzah.[5]

In 1870, Victor Guérin found it "situated on a hill and counting scarcely a hundred inhabitants today. A belt of olive trees surrounds it."[6]

In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described it as: "A village of ancient appearance on a hill perched above the plain, the houses descending the slope on the south-east. It has two wells down the hill and a good olive grove near the road on the south. The houses are of stone."[7]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village had a population of 537 Muslims,[8] increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 642 Muslims, with 137 houses.[9]

In the 1944/5 statistics, the population was 880 Muslims,[10] with a total of 4,740 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[11] Of this, 958 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 2,110 dunams for cereals,[12] while 16 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[13]

Jordanian era

After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Anzah came under Jordanian rule. In 1961, the population of 'Anze was 1,011.[14]

Post-1967

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Anzah has been under Israeli occupation, and according to the Israeli census of that year, the population of Anza stood at 807, of whom 13 were registered as having come from Israel.[15]

The village has six major families: Obaid, Sadaqa, Barahmeh, Ataya, Khader, and Omour.

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 178
  2. ↑ Zertal, 2004, p. 203
  3. ↑ Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  4. ↑ Zertal, 2004, pp. 202-3
  5. ↑ Shehabi 1969, III, pp. 805-806; cited in Zertal, 2004, pp. 202-3
  6. ↑ Guérin, 1875, p. 217
  7. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 155
  8. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
  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
  15. ↑ Perlmann, Joel (November 2011 – February 2012). "The 1967 Census of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Digitized Version" (PDF). Levy Economics Institute. Retrieved 29 January 2018.

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.
  • 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.
  • Guérin, V. (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
  • Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
  • 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.
  • Shehabi, Kheidar (1969). Lubnanfi Ahd el-Amraa el-Shehabiih (in Arabic). III. Beyrouth.
  • Zertal, A. (2004). The Manasseh Hill Country Survey. 1. Boston: BRILL. ISBN 9004137564.
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