Talfit, Jenin
Template:Infobox Palestinian Authority municipality Telfit (Arabic: تلفت; Khirbet Telfit or Tilfit) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate in the northern West Bank, located southeast of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, the village had a population of 238 in 2007.[1]
Situated on an isolated tell in the Zababdeh Valley, Telfit has an elevation of 390 meters above sea level.[2] Nearby localities include Kufeir to the south, Zababdeh to the southwest, Qabatiya to the west, Umm at-Tut to the north, Jalqamus and al-Mughayyir to the northeast and Raba to the southeast. The principal water source is Ein Ginai, 6 kilometers to the west and there are 35 cisterns in the village. In 1980 Telfit's built-up area consisted of 15 dunams.[2]
History
The northern and westerns parts of Telfit contain ruins dating to the Byzantine and Early Islamic periods between the 5th-8th centuries. Ancient building material is used in some of the houses.[2]
The Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine noted in 1882 that the place (then called "Khurbet Telfit") had modern masonry.[3]
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Telfit had a population of 43; 24 Muslims and 19 Christians,[4] where the Christians were all Orthodox.[5] The population increased in the 1931 census to 120; all Muslim, in a total of 26 houses.[6]
In 1945 the population was 170; all Muslims,[7] with 6,627 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[8] 194 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 2,726 dunams for cereals,[9] while a total of 3,707 dunams were non-cultivable land.[10]
1948-1967
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Telfit came under Jordanian rule.
post-1967
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Telfit has been under Israeli occupation.
References
- ^ 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p. 105.
- ^ a b c Zertal, 2007, p. 122
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 240
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table XV, p. 47
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 71
- ^ 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
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.
- Hadawi, Sami (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 (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.
- Zertal, Adam (2007). The Manasseh Hill Country Survey. Vol. 2. Boston: BRILL. ISBN 9004163697.
External links
- Welcome To Tilfit
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 12: IAA, Wikimedia commons
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