Yatma

Yatma
Other transcription(s)
 • Arabic يتما
Yatma, 2012
Yatma
Location of Yatma within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°06′30″N 35°16′06″E / 32.10833°N 35.26833°E / 32.10833; 35.26833Coordinates: 32°06′30″N 35°16′06″E / 32.10833°N 35.26833°E / 32.10833; 35.26833
Palestine grid 175/168
Governorate Nablus
Government
 • Type Village council
Population (2006)
 • Jurisdiction 2,981
Name meaning from Yetma, personal name[1]

Yatma (Arabic: يتما‎) is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 15 kilometers south of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 2,981 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.[2]

Location

Yatma is located 12.4 km south of Nablus. It is bordered by Qabalan to the east and south, Beita to the north, Yasuf and As Sawiya to the west.[3]

History

Pottery sherds from the Iron Age II, Persian, Hellenistic/Roman and the Crusader/Ayyubid eras have been found here.[4]

It has been suggested that this was the place of origin of Dosthai of Kefar Iathma,[5] and that it was the Eincheitem of the Crusader period.[4]

Sherds from the Mamluk era has also been found here.[4]

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 Yitma, located in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal of the Liwa of Nablus. The population was 10 households and 2 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 1,800 akçe.[6] Sherds from the early Ottoman era have also been found here.[4]

In 1838, Edward Robinson noted it as part of Jurat Merda District, south of Nablus.[7][8]

In 1850/1 de Saulcy noted Yatma on his travels in the region,[9] as did Victor Guérin in 1870.[10]

In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's "Survey of Western Palestine", Yetma was described as "A little village, on high ground, with olives round it."[11]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Yatma had a population of 242 Muslims,[12] increasing in the 1931 census to 325 Muslims, in 64 houses.[13]

In the 1945 statistics the population was 440 Muslims[14] while the total land area was 3,777 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[15] Of this, 1,214 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,741 for cereals,[16] while 44 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[17]

Jordanian era

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

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 618 inhabitants.[18]

Post 1967

After the Six-Day War in 1967, Yatma came under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 29% of village land is defined as Area B land, while the remaining 71% is defined as Area C land. Israel has also confiscated village land for Israeli bypass roads.[19]

In 2011, two cars were set ablaze in Yatma and the village mosque was vandalised with Hebrew graffiti, reading "price tag" and "Migron", in what was assumed to be a price tag attack by Israeli settlers.[20][21]

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 250
  2. ↑ Projected Mid -Year Population for Nablus Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  3. ↑ Yatma Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 4
  4. 1 2 3 4 Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 639
  5. ↑ Neubauer, 1868, pp. 268-269
  6. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 136
  7. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, Appendix 2, p. 127
  8. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, p. 92
  9. ↑ Saulcy, 1854, vol 1, p. 103
  10. ↑ Guérin, 1875, p. 163
  11. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 287
  12. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, p. 25
  13. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 66
  14. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 19
  15. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 61
  16. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 108
  17. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 158
  18. ↑ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25
  19. ↑ Yatma Village Profile, ARIJ, pp. 15-17
  20. ↑ Second West Bank Mosque Vandalized, Settlers Blamed, 8 September 2011
  21. ↑ Quamar Mishirqi-Asad,'High ‘Price Tag’ in the Mosque of the Village Yatma,' in Rabbis for Human Rights, 13 September 2011. Archived September 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.

Bibliography

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  • 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.
  • Finkelstein, I.; Lederman, Zvi, eds. (1997). Highlands of many cultures. Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. ISBN 965-440-007-3.
  • 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.
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  • Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
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