Ammuriya, Nablus
Ammuriya | |
|---|---|
| Arabic transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | عمورية |
| • Latin | ʽAmuria (official) ʽAmuriya (unofficial) |
 Jilijliya to the right, ʽAmmuriya to the left. | |
  Ammuriya Location of ʽAmmuriya within Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°4′1″N 35°12′53″E / 32.06694°N 35.21472°E | |
| Palestine grid | 169/163 |
| State | State of Palestine |
| Governorate | Nablus |
| Government | |
| • Type | Local Development Committee |
| • Head of Municipality | Sulaiman Hakawati[1] |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Total | 302 |
Ammuriya (Arabic: عمورية, romanized: ʿAmmūriya, also spelled Amuria)[2] is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank, located south of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, Ammuriya had a population of 302 in 2007. There were 48 households and five business establishments in the village.[3]
In 2012, Ammuriya was joined with al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya into a single municipality called after the latter town.[4]
Location
Nearby localities include Iskaka to the north, al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya to the east, Abwein to the south, Arura and Mazari an-Nubani to the southwest and Salfit to the northwest.
History
Pottery sherds from Iron Age II, Hellenistic/Roman, Crusader/Ayyubid and Mamluk eras have been found here.[5]
Ottoman era
In 1596, it appeared in Ottoman tax registers as "ʽAmmuriya", a village in the nahiya of Jabal Qubal in the Nablus Sanjak. It had a population of 7 households and 1 bachelor, all Muslim. The villagers paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, and a press for olive oils or grapes; a total of 2,000 akçe.[6]
In 1838, Edward Robinson noted it as a village in the Jurat Merda district, south of Nablus.[7][8]
In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as "A small village on high ground".[9]
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the population was 69, all Muslim,[1][10] increasing in the 1931 census 85 Muslims in 19 houses.[11]
In the 1945 statistics the population was 120, all Muslims,[12] with 3,112 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[13] Of this, 1,753 dunams were used for cereals,[14] while 6 dunams were built-up land.[15]
Jordanian era
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, ʽAmmuriya came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 157 inhabitants.[16]
1967, and aftermath
In 1967 the village came under Israeli occupation after the Six-Day War, and the same year the population was found to be 130.[17]
In 2012, Ammuriya was joined with al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya in a single municipality called after the latter town.[4]
References
- ^ a b Ammuriya Profile. Jerusalem Media and Communications Center (JMCC). 2007-02-09.
- ^ From Amorites, according to Palmer, 1881, p. 225
- ^ 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p. 110.
- ^ a b Al Lubban ash Sharqiya Village Profile (including ‘Ammuriya Locality), ARIJ, p. 5
- ^ Finkelstein and Lederman, 1997, p. 484
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 136
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 82,
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 127
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 283
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 25
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 59
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 18
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 59 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 105
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 155
- ^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 26
- ^ Perlmann, Joel (November 2011 – February 2012). "The 1967 Census of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Digitized Version" (PDF). Levy Economics Institute. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
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. Vol. 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.
- Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center. Archived from the original on 2018-12-08. Retrieved 2012-07-17.
- 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.
- Perlmann, Joel: The 1967 Census of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Digitized Version. Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. November 2011 – February 2012. [Digitized from: Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing, 1967 Conducted in the Areas Administered by the IDF, Vols. 1–5 (1967–70), and Census of Population and Housing: East Jerusalem, Parts 1 and 2 (1968–70).]
- Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
External links
- Welcome To 'Ammuriya
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Al Lubban ash Sharqiya Village Profile (including ‘Ammuriya Locality), Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ)
- ‘Ammuriya aerial photo, ARIJ
