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Al-Tayba, Jenin

Coordinates: 32°30′55″N 35°11′21″E / 32.51528°N 35.18917°E / 32.51528; 35.18917
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al-Tayba
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicخربة الطيبه
al-Tayba is located in State of Palestine
al-Tayba
al-Tayba
Location of al-Tayba within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°30′55″N 35°11′21″E / 32.51528°N 35.18917°E / 32.51528; 35.18917
Palestine grid167/213
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateJenin
Government
 • TypeMunicipality
Population
 (2017)
 • Total
2,215[1]
Name meaningThe goodly[2]

Al-Tayba (Arabic: خربة الطيبه) is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 18 km northwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank, and 2 km east of Umm el-Fahm in Israel. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,386 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 2,215 in 2017.[3][1]

History

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The current village was covering as of 2016 the slopes surrounding an ancient khirba (ruined village), Khirbet et-Taiybeh.[4] The ancient village only covered the southern slope of a hill and the ravine to its south.[4] Excavations indicate that it was mainly active in the Late Roman,[4] Byzantine,[4][5] and Medieval periods,[4] with lesser findings from the Persian, Early Muslim and Ottoman periods.[4]

Ottoman period

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All of Palestine was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517.

Zertal writes that after no mention of the village in Medieval sources, a "Tayyiba" of six Muslim households appears in the Ottoman census of 1596, but he found no proof that this is the same settlement as the future Khirbet et-Taiybeh, known today as al-Tayba.[4] Hütteroth and Abdulfattah also mention the 1596 tax register with "Tayyiba" being part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Sha'ara under the liwa' (district) of Lajjun, with a population of 6 Muslim households.[6] The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, beehives and/or goats, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 3,500 akçe.[6]

Al-Tayiba began as a small dependency of the so-called "Fahmawi Commonwealth" established by Hebronite clans belonging to Umm al-Fahm. The Commonwealth consisted of a network of interspersed communities connected by ties of kinship, and socially, economically and politically affiliated with Umm al Fahm. The Commonwealth dominated vast sections of Bilad al-Ruha/Ramot Menashe, Wadi 'Ara and Marj Ibn 'Amir/Jezreel Valley during that time.[7]

In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village, as Tayibat Umm al-Fahm (with a classifier after the major neighboring village) in the nahiya of Shafa al-Gharby.[8]

In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine found here "a modern ruined village with springs."[9]

Jordanian period

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

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 467 inhabitants in Taiyiba.[10]

Post-1967

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Since the Six-Day War in 1967, al-Tayba has been under Israeli occupation.[citation needed]

Footnotes

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  1. ^ a b Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report). State of Palestine. February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  2. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 154
  3. ^ Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Archived 2008-09-20 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Zertal & Mirkam (2016), pp. 122-123
  5. ^ Dauphin, 1998, pp. 743-4
  6. ^ a b Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 160
  7. ^ Marom, Roy; Tepper, Yotam; Adams, Matthew J. (2024-01-03). "Al-Lajjun: a Social and geographic account of a Palestinian Village during the British Mandate Period". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: 8–11. doi:10.1080/13530194.2023.2279340. ISSN 1353-0194.
  8. ^ Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 257.
  9. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 68
  10. ^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25

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