Jarba

Jarba
Other transcription(s)
 • Arabic جربا
Jarba
Location of Jarba within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°23′08″N 35°15′22″E / 32.38556°N 35.25611°E / 32.38556; 35.25611Coordinates: 32°23′08″N 35°15′22″E / 32.38556°N 35.25611°E / 32.38556; 35.25611
Palestine grid 174/199
Governorate Jenin
Government
 • Type Village council
Name meaning El Jŭrbah, the plantation[1]

Jarba (Arabic: جربا‎) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate.

Nazlat Rahal

Just southwest of Jarba is Nazlat Rahal,[2] where Byzantine ceramics have been found.[3] SWP found at Kh. Haj Rah-hal: "traces of ruins."[4]

History

Pottery sherds from the Byzantine (10%), early Muslim (30%) and the Middle Ages (30%) have been found at Jarba.[5]

Ottoman era

Jarba, like all of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. About 30% of the pottery sherds found in the village date back to this period.[5] In the 1596 Ottoman tax registers, it was located in the nahiya of Jabal Sami in the liwa of Nablus. Jarba was listed as an entirely Muslim village with a population of 11 households and 2 bachelors. The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, and goats and/or beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a tax on people from the Nablus area, a total of 1,500 akçe.[6]

In 1838 el-Jurba was noted as a village in the District of esh-Sha'rawiyeh esh-Shurkiyeh, the eastern part.[7][8]

In 1870, Victor Guérin noted it as a small village situated on a neighboring hill from Misilyah.[9]

In 1882 the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Jurba as: "a small village on the side of a slope, with olives to the south."[10]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jarba had a population of 31 Muslims,[11] increasing in the 1931 census to 65 Muslim, in a total of 17 houses.[12]

In the 1944/5 statistics the population was 100, all Muslims,[13] with 3,530 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[14] 100 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,553 for cereals,[15] while 2 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[16]

Jordanian era

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

post-1967

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

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 183
  2. ↑ Kh. el Haj Rahhâl, the ruin of el Hâj (Pilgrim) Rahhâl; according to Palmer, 1881, p. 185
  3. ↑ Dauphin, 1998, p. 756
  4. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 156
  5. 1 2 Zertal, 2004, pp. 226- 227
  6. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 129
  7. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 153
  8. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 129
  9. ↑ Guérin, 1874, p. 344
  10. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 196
  11. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
  12. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 68
  13. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16
  14. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54
  15. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98
  16. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 148

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 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.
  • 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.
  • Zertal, A. (2004). The Manasseh Hill Country Survey. 1. Boston: BRILL. ISBN 9004137564.
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