Rujeib

Rujeib
Other transcription(s)
 • Arabic روجيب
 • Also spelled Rujib (unofficial)
Rujeib
Location of Rujeib within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°11′27″N 35°17′34″E / 32.19083°N 35.29278°E / 32.19083; 35.29278Coordinates: 32°11′27″N 35°17′34″E / 32.19083°N 35.29278°E / 32.19083; 35.29278
Palestine grid 177/177
Governorate Nablus
Government
 • Type Village council
Population (2006)
 • Jurisdiction 3,915
Name meaning either from personal name, or for a prop for a tree,[1]

Rujeib (Arabic: روجيب‎) is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 3 kilometers southeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 3,915 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.[2]

Location

Rujeib is located 4.3 km south east of Nablus. It is bordered by Beit Furik to the east, ‘Awarta to the south, and Nablus to the north and west.[3]

History

There was a human habitation here during the Chalcolithic era.[4][5]

Sherds from the Late Bronze Age/Iron Age I,[5] Hellenistic,[5][6][7] Roman[5][6] and Byzantine[5][6] eras have been found here.

It has been suggested that Rujeib was the Crusader village Ragabam, which was one of the villages exchanged with Bethany by King Baldwin I and given as a fief to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.[8][9] Pottery from the Crusader era have also been found here.[5]

Ottoman era

In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and in the 1596 tax-records it appeared as Rujib, located in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal in the Nablus Sanjak. The population was 16 households and 1 bachelors, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, a press for olive oil or grape syrup, in addition to occasional revenues and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 3,600 Akçe.[10]

In 1838, Raujib was noted in the El-Beitawy district, east of Nablus, together with Beita, Haudela and Awarta.[11] In 1850/51 de Saulcy noted Roujib on a lower hill than Beit Dejan.[12]

In 1870, Victor Guérin noted that Rujeib was a "village of three hundred inhabitants more, on a hill whose flanks were formerly, in several places, exploited as a quarry. Cactus hedges serve as enclosures for some gardens."[13]

In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's "Survey of Western Palestine", Rujib was described as "A village of moderate size to the east of the plain so named, with a few olives round it."[14]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Rujib had a population of 250 Muslims,[15] increasing in the 1931 census to 277 Muslims, in 58 houses.[16]

In the 1945 statistics, Rujeib had a population of 390 Muslims[17] while the total land area was 7,038 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[18] Of this, 235 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 3,410 for cereals,[19] while 30 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[20]

Jordanian era

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

In 1961, the population of Rujeib was 628 persons.[21]

Post 1967

After the Six-Day War in 1967, Rujeib came under Israeli occupation. The population in the 1967 census conducted by Israel was 831, of whom 30 originated from the Israeli territory.[22]

After the 1995 accord 28% of village land is defined as Area B land, while the remaining 72% is defined as Area C. Israel has confiscated 169 dunams of land from Rujeib for construction of the Israeli settlement of Itamar. In addition, Israel has also confiscated land from Awarta, Beit Furik and Yanun for Itamar.[23]

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 189
  2. ↑ Projected Mid -Year Population for Nablus Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  3. ↑ Rujeib village profile, ARIJ, p. 4
  4. ↑ Jaroš and Deckert, 1977, p. 28
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Bull and Campbell, 1968, p. 31
  6. 1 2 3 Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 709
  7. ↑ Jaroš and Deckert, 1977, p. 44
  8. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 11
  9. ↑ Conder, 1890, p. 33 NB: Conder mistakenly places Rujeib on SWP map 14
  10. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 135
  11. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp. 94, 103, 2nd Appendix, p. 128
  12. ↑ Saulcy, 1854, vol 1, p. 99
  13. ↑ Guérin, 1874, pp. 462 -463
  14. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 168
  15. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, p. 24
  16. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 64
  17. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 19
  18. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 61
  19. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 107
  20. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 157
  21. ↑ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 26
  22. ↑ 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.
  23. ↑ Rujeib village profile, ARIJ, p. 14

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