Seida, Tulkarm

Seida
Other transcription(s)
 • Arabic صيدا
Seida
Location of Seida within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°23′06″N 35°07′07″E / 32.38500°N 35.11861°E / 32.38500; 35.11861Coordinates: 32°23′06″N 35°07′07″E / 32.38500°N 35.11861°E / 32.38500; 35.11861
Palestine grid 161/199
Governorate Tulkarm
Government
 • Type Village council
Population (2007)
 • Jurisdiction 3,076
Name meaning Saida, personal name, from "hunting"[1]

Seida (Arabic: صيدا‎)is a Palestinian town in the Tulkarm Governorate in the eastern West Bank, located 20 kilometers northeast of Tulkarm. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Seida had a population of 3,076 inhabitants in 2006.[2]

History

Ceramics from the Iron Age II, Hellenistic, early and late Roman, Byzantine, early Muslim and the Middle Ages have been found here.[3]

In 1179, during the Crusader era, it appeared as an estate, sold to the Zion Monastery in Jerusalem.[3]

In 1265, Seida was one of the estates given by Sultan Baibars to his followers after his victory over the Crusaders,[3] with the whole of Seida given to emir Husam al-Din Itamish b. Utlis Khan.[4]

Ottoman era

In 1517, Seida, like all of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire. In the 1596 tax registers, it was part of the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Jabal Sami, part of the larger Sanjak of Nablus. It had a population of 70 households and 2 bachelors, all Muslims. The inhabitants 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 fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 12,160 akçe. All of the revenue went to a Waqf.[5]

In the 1882 Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP), Saida is described as: "a small village, with a well on the east on the back of a long and bare ridge."[6]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Saida had a population of 252 Muslims,[7] increasing in the 1931 census to 351 Muslims, living in 75 houses.[8]

In the 1945 statistics the population of Seida was 450 Muslims,[9] with 5,060 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.[10] Of this, 1,622 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,113 were used for cereals,[11] while 11 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[12]

Jordanian era

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

In 1961, the population was 808.[13]

Post 1967

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

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 190
  2. ↑ Projected Mid -Year Population for Tulkarm Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  3. 1 2 3 Zertal, 2016, pp. 400-401
  4. ↑ Ibn al-Furat, 1971, pp. 81, 209, 249 (map)
  5. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 130
  6. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 155
  7. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Tulkarm, p. 27
  8. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 57
  9. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 21
  10. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 76
  11. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 127
  12. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 177
  13. ↑ Government of Jordan, 1964, p. 27

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Ibn al-Furat (1971). J. Riley-Smith, ed. Ayyubids, Mamluks and Crusaders: Selections from the "Tarikh Al-duwal Wal-muluk" of Ibn Al-Furat : the Text, the Translation. 2. Translation by Malcolm Cameron Lyons, Ursula Lyons. Cambridge: W. Heffer.
  • 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.
  • Zertal, A. (2016). The Manasseh Hill Country Survey. 3. Boston: BRILL. ISBN 9004312307.
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