Zawiya, Jenin
Template:Infobox Palestinian Authority muni Az-Zawiya (Arabic: الزاوية; also spelled Zawiyeh) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate in the northern West Bank, located south of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, the village had a population of 770 in 2007.[1]
History
Tombs and a columbarium have been cut into the rock, and ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[2]
Ottoman era
In 1517, Zawiya was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine. In 1596, it appeared in Ottoman tax registers as a village named Zawiyat, or alternatively Sayh Mohammad Rifa'i, in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Jabal Sami in the Nablus Sanjak. It had a population of 12 households, all Muslim.[3]
In 1870, Victor Guérin described as having a small number of houses, situated on a mound.[4]
In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described it as: "A hamlet on a hill side, with a well to the west. It seems to take its name from the sudden twist in the road near the place."[5]
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Zawieh had a population 45 Muslims,[6] increasing in the 1931 census to 76 Muslim, in a total of 17 houses.[7]
In 1945 the population was 120 Muslims,[8] with 1,066 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[9] Of this, 310 dunams were used for cereals,[10] while 4 dunams were built-up, urban land.[11]
Jordanian era
Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and the subsequent 1949 Armistice Agreements, Zawiya came under Jordanian rule.
Post-1967
After after the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel began its occupation of Zawiya.
On Saturday 9 January 2016 the owner of a local trading company, Said Abu Al-Wafa (35), was shot dead by Israeli soldiers at the Beka'ot roadblock.[12][13]
References
- ^ "Table 26 (Cont.): Localities in the West Bank by Selected Indicators, 2007" (PDF) (in Arabic). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. 2007. p. 106.
- ^ Dauphin, 1998, p. 757
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 130.
- ^ Guérin, 1875, p. 217
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 158
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 72
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 17
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 55
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 100
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 150
- ^ Two Palestinians, from different walks of life, brought together in death at a checkpoint Ha'aretz 16/1/2016 Gideon Levy, Haaretz
- ^ Israeli Army Says Two Palestinians Killed After Attempted Stabbing Ha'aretz 9/1/2016 Gili Cohen
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). Vol. III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. ISBN 0-860549-05-4.
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- Guérin, Victor (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
- Hadawi, Sami (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 (PDF). 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.
External links
- Welcome To Zawiya
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11: IAA, Wikimedia commons
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