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This article is about the town in the southern Gaza Strip. For the nearby city, see Abasan al-Kabera.

Template:Infobox Palestinian Authority municipality Abasan al-Saghira (Arabic: عبسان الصغيرة) is a Palestinian agricultural town located 2 km southeast of Khan Yunis in the Khan Yunis Governorate in the southern Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Abasan al-Saghira had a population of 5,650 Muslim inhabitants.

History

In 1886, at the end of the Ottoman era, Abasan al-Saghira consisted of about ten huts, with old building stones.[1]

British Mandate Period

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Abassan (presumably both Abasan al-Kabira and Abasan al-Saghira) had a population of 695; all Muslims,[2] increasing in the 1931 census (when they were clearly counted together) to 1144, still all Muslim, in 186 houses.[3]

In the 1945 statistics the two Abasans were still counted together, and had a population of 2,230, all Muslims,[4] with 16,084 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[5] Of this, 92 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 15,616 used for cereals,[6] while 69 dunams were built-up land.[7]

References

  1. ^ Schumacher, 1886, p. 192
  2. ^ Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Gaza, p. 8
  3. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 2
  4. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 31
  5. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 45
  6. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 86
  7. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 136

Bibliography

  • Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
  • 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.
  • Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
  • Schumacher, G. (1886). "Researches in Southern Palestine". Quarterly statement - Palestine Exploration Fund. 18: 171–194.
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