Talfit
Template:Infobox Palestinian Authority muni Talfit (Arabic: تلفيت)[1] is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank, located 21 kilometers southeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, it had a population of 2,824 in 2007.[2]
History
Potsherds from the IA II, Persian, Byzantine/Ayyubid, Mamluk and early Ottoman period have been found.[3] Röhricht suggested identifying Talfit with Tarphin, mentioned in a Crusader text from 1154,[4] but a later author (Abel) preferred to locate it at Kh. Tarfein to the north of Bir Zeit.[5] According to Finkelstein, Kh. Tarfein better fits the archaeological finds.[3]
Ottoman era
In 1596, Talfit appeared in Ottoman tax registers as a village in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal in the Liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 12 Muslim households and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summercrops, olives, and goats or beehives.[6]
The Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine noted in 1882 that the place resembled Kabalan, described as a village of moderate size, on high ground, surrounded by olive-trees. Talfit was supplied with water from a well called Ain Telfit.[7]
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Talfit had a population of 352, all Muslims,[8] increasing in the 1931 census to 464, still all Muslim, in 116 occupied houses.[9]
In 1945 Telfit had a population of 610, all Muslims,[10] with 6,258 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[11] Of this, 3,309 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,228 used for cereals,[12] while 49 dunams were built-up land.[13]
1948-1967
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Talfit came under Jordanian rule.
1967-present
After the Six-Day War in 1967, Talfit has been under Israeli occupation.
References
- ^ Palmer, 1881 p. 245
- ^ 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p. 110.
- ^ a b Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 655
- ^ Röhricht, 1887, p. 213
- ^ Abel, 1928:52, cited in Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 655
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 133
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 288
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 25
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 65
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 19
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 61
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 108
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 158
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.
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- Finkelstein, Israel; Lederman, Zvi, eds. (1997). Highlands of many cultures. Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. ISBN 965-440-007-3.
- 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. 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.
- Röhricht, R. (1887). "Studien zur mittelalterlichen Geographie und Topographie Syriens". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 10: 195–344.
External links
- Welcome To Talfit
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Talfit Village Profile, ARIJ
- Talfit, aerial photo, ARIJ
