Kafr Qallil

Kafr Qallil
Other transcription(s)
 • Arabic كفر قلّيل
Maqam of Sheikh Ghanem, on Mount Sinai, which is currently under the control of the Israelis[3] In 1850-51 de Saulcy found stonecutters repairing a staircase here.[4]
Kafr Qallil
Location of Kafr Qallil within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°11′28″N 35°16′34″E / 32.19111°N 35.27611°E / 32.19111; 35.27611Coordinates: 32°11′28″N 35°16′34″E / 32.19111°N 35.27611°E / 32.19111; 35.27611
Palestine grid 176/177
Governorate Nablus
Government
 • Type Village council
Population (2006)
 • Jurisdiction 2,491
Name meaning Kefr Kullin, or Kullil, the village of Kullin, or Kullil[5]

Kafr Qallil (Arabic: كفر قلّيل‎) is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 2,491 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.[6]

Location

Kafr Qallil is located 4.30 km south of Nablus. It is bordered by Nablus to the north and east, and by Burin to the south and west.[7]

History

Pottery sherds from the early and late Roman and Byzantine eras have been found here.[8] In addition to ceramics, inscriptions dating to the Byzantine era have been found here.[9] This place was mention in the Samaritan Chronicle,[10] and was inhabited by the Samaritans in the 7th century CE.[11]

Pottery from the Umayyad era has also been found here.[8]

Ottoman era

Incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with the rest of Palestine, in 1596 the village appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the nahiya of Jabal Qubal in the liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 50 households and 11 bachelors, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 33,3 % on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a press for olive oil or syrup; a total of 15,000 akçe.[12]

In 1838, Kefr Kullin was noted as a village on the side of Mount Gerizim,[13] located in the District of Jurat 'Amra, south of Nablus.[14]

In 1870, Victor Guérin described it as being a village of two hundred inhabitants, separated by a valley in two districts, one northern and the other southern. A few gardens adjoined it.[15]

In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described Kefr Kullin as "A small village at the foot of Gerizim, with a spring in it; it stands higher than the main road."[10]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kufr Qallil had a population of 298 Muslims,[16] increasing at the time of the 1931 census to 332, still all Muslim, in 79 houses.[17]

In the 1945 statistics, Kafr Qallil (including Khirbat Sarin) had a population of 470, all Muslims,[18] with 4,732 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[19] Of this, 83 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 2,372 were used for cereals,[20] while 39 dunams were built-up land.[21]

Jordanian era

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

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 749 inhabitants.[22]

1967, aftermath

After the Six-Day War in 1967, Kafr Qallil has been under Israeli occupation along with the rest of the Palestinian territories.

According to ARIJ, 27% of the village land is in Area A, while the remaining 73% is in Area C.[23]

Israel has confiscated hundreds of dunams of land from the village. Some has been used for Israeli military checkpoints, and 15 dunams went to the Israeli settlement of Har Brakha.[24]

References

  1. ↑ Kafr Qallil Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 6
  2. ↑ de Saulcy, 1854, pp. 328-329
  3. ↑ Kafr Qallil Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 6
  4. ↑ de Saulcy, 1854, pp. 328-329
  5. ↑ Palmer, 1881 p. 184
  6. ↑ Projected Mid -Year Population for Nablus Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Archived 2008-02-07 at the Wayback Machine. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  7. ↑ Kafr Qallil Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 4
  8. 1 2 Bull and Campbell, 1968, p. 35
  9. ↑ Dauphin, 1998, p. 800
  10. 1 2 Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 163
  11. ↑ Conder, 1876, p.196
  12. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 135
  13. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 94
  14. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 127
  15. ↑ Guérin, 1874, p. 459
  16. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 24
  17. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 63
  18. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 18
  19. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 60
  20. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 105
  21. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 156
  22. ↑ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 26
  23. ↑ Kafr Qallil Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 14
  24. ↑ Kafr Qallil Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 15

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