Tell, Nablus

Tell
Other transcription(s)
 • Arabic تلّ
 • Also spelled Tel (official)
Tall (unofficial)
Tell
Tell
Location of Tell within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°12′03″N 35°12′47″E / 32.20083°N 35.21306°E / 32.20083; 35.21306Coordinates: 32°12′03″N 35°12′47″E / 32.20083°N 35.21306°E / 32.20083; 35.21306
Palestine grid 170/178
Governorate Nablus
Government
 • Type Village council
 • Head of Municipality Omar Abdel Latif Eshtaia
Area
 • Jurisdiction 13,776 dunams (13.8 km2 or 5.3 sq mi)
Population (2007)
 • Jurisdiction 4,334
Name meaning "Mound"[1]

Tell (Arabic: تلّ‎) is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located five kilometers southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 4,334 inhabitants in 2007.[2] Most of the town's laborers work in agriculture, with figs and olives being the major source of income.[3]

Mohammad Shtayyeh, a Palestinian economist and politician, was born in Tell.

History

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[4]

Ottoman era

In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and it appeared in the 1596 tax-records as Till, located in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal of the Liwa of Nablus. The population was 46 households, 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, in addition to occasional revenues, a press for olive oil or grape syrup, and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 5,100 akçe.[5]

In 1838, Till was located in the District of Jurat 'Amra, south of Nablus.[6]

In 1863, Victor Guérin found it to have a population of one thousand inhabitants. It was divided into several districts, each administered by a different sheikh. He further noted: "Some houses are large and fairly well built. Around the village grow, in pens, beautiful plantations of fig and pomegranate trees."[7]

In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described Till as: "A village of moderate size on low ground, with a high mound behind it on the south ; it has a well and a few trees, and on the west a pool in winter ; the hills to the north are bare and white, but terraced to the very top."[8]

British mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Tel had a population of 567 Muslims,[9] increasing in the 1931 census to 803 Muslims, in 209 houses.[10]

In the 1945 statistics the population was 1,060 Muslims,[11] while the total land area was 13,766 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[12] Of this, 1,056 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 7,023 for cereals,[13] while 55 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[14]

Jordanian era

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

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,539 inhabitants.[15]

1967, aftermath

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

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 194
  2. ↑ 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.110.
  3. ↑ Israeli Forces Storm Tel village In Nablus Governorate Archived 2011-05-19 at the Wayback Machine. Land Research Center. 2001-12-20
  4. ↑ Dauphin, 1998, p. 798
  5. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 134
  6. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 127
  7. ↑ Guérin, 1875, p. 178
  8. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 164
  9. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, p. 24
  10. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 65
  11. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 19
  12. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 61
  13. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 108
  14. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 158
  15. ↑ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 24

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. (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 2. 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.
  • 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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