Arabbuna

Arabbuna
Other transcription(s)
 • Arabic عربونة
Arabbuna
Location of Arabbuna within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°30′43″N 35°21′47″E / 32.51194°N 35.36306°E / 32.51194; 35.36306Coordinates: 32°30′43″N 35°21′47″E / 32.51194°N 35.36306°E / 32.51194; 35.36306
Palestine grid 184/213
Governorate Jenin
Government
 • Type Village council
Population (2016)
 • Jurisdiction 1,799
Name meaning 'earnest money' in Arabic[1]

Arabbuna (Arabic: عربّونة‎) is a Palestinian village in the West Bank governorate of Jenin. The village is located 9km north of the city of Jenin, south of the West Bank separation barrier[2] and according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) in 2016 it had a population of 1,007.[3]

History

Arabbuna is a small village on ancient site on mound. Old stones have been reused in buildings, fences of fields and walls of terraces. Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[4]

Ottoman era

Arabbuna, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village appeared as Arabbuni, located in the nahiya of Sara in the liwa of Lajjun. It had a population of 14 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25 % on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 4,500 akçe.[5]

In 1838 it was noted as a place N 60° E of Jenin.[6]

In 1870 Victor Guérin found Arabbuna to be a small village,[7] and further "south of this village, the foundation of an ancient building, which he does not appear to have examined."[8]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village had a population of 136 Muslims,[9] increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 138 Muslims, in 24 households.[10]

In the 1944/5 statistics, the population was 210, all Muslim,[11] with a total of 6,772 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[12] Of this, 256 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 3,607 dunams for cereals,[13] while 22 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[14]

Jordanian era

After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Arabbuna came under Jordanian rule.

In 1961, the population was 298.[15]

Post-1967

After the Six-Day War in 1967, Arabbuna has been under Israeli occupation. The population of 'Arrabuna in the 1967 census conducted by Israel was 270, of whom 42 originated from the Israeli territory.[16]

Geography

Arabbuna is located 3 km northwest of Faqqua and 2 km northeast of Deir Ghazaleh. The village houses are situated on a hill at the foot of Mount Faqqua, a section of Mount Gilboa (known as Mount Gibborim in Hebrew), bordered on the west by the Huhit river, on the west by Wadi Abu Jabir, on the north by Mount Faqqua and on the south by a rivulet of Wadi Abi Jabir.[17]

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 159
  2. ↑ "צה"ל התיר הבוקר מסיק זיתים בכפרים שממזרח לג`נין [IDF allowed olive harvest for village east of Jenin this morning]" (in Hebrew). Association for Civil Rights in Israel.
  3. ↑ "Localities in Jenin Governorate by Type of Locality and Population Estimates, 2007-2016".
  4. ↑ Dauphin, 1998, p. 778
  5. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 160
  6. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 158
  7. ↑ Guérin, 1874, p. 336
  8. ↑ Guérin, 1874, pp. 336-37: A'rabouneh; as given in Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 101
  9. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
  10. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 67
  11. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16
  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. ↑ Government of Jordan, 1964, p. 25
  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 25 January 2018.
  17. ↑ Hareuveni, Immanuel; Eretz Yisrael Lexicon; Ministry of Education p.781

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.
  • Guérin, V. (1874). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 1. 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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