Jalqamus

Jalqamus
Other transcription(s)
 • Arabic جلقموس
Jalqamus
Location of Jalqamus within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°25′27″N 35°21′50″E / 32.42417°N 35.36389°E / 32.42417; 35.36389Coordinates: 32°25′27″N 35°21′50″E / 32.42417°N 35.36389°E / 32.42417; 35.36389
Palestine grid 184/173
Governorate Jenin
Government
 • Type Village council
Population (2006)
 • Jurisdiction 1,867
Name meaning The mound of thistles[1]

Jalqamus (Arabic: جلقموس‎) is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 10 km southeast of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 1,867 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.[2]

History

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[3]

Ottoman era

In 1838, during the Ottoman era, Jelkamus was noted as a village in the Haritheh area, north of Nablus.[4] In 1870, Jalqamus, called Djell Kamous, situated south of Deir Abu Da'if, was one of the villages Victor Guérin noted from Faqqua.[5]

In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described Jelkamus as "a small village on a hill-top, surrounded by plough-land, with a few olives, built of stone and mud, with rain-water cisterns."[6]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jalqamus had a population of 124 Muslims,[7] increasing in the 1931 census to 150 Muslims, in a total of 31 houses.[8]

In 1944/5 the population of Jalqamus was 220 Muslims,[9] with 4,437 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[10] Of this, 180 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 2,422 for cereals,[11] while 6 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[12]

Jordanian era

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

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 435 inhabitants.[13]

Post-1967

After the Six-Day War in 1967, Jalqamus has been under Israeli occupation.

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 161
  2. ↑ Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Archived 2008-09-20 at the Wayback Machine. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  3. ↑ Dauphin, 1998, p. 788
  4. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 130
  5. ↑ Guérin, 1874, p. 336
  6. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 85
  7. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
  8. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 68
  9. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16
  10. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54
  11. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98
  12. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 148
  13. ↑ 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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