Beit Imrin
| Beit Imrin | |
|---|---|
| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | بيت امرين |
| • Also spelled |
Beit Imrin (official) Bayt Umrin (unofficial) |
  Beit Imrin | |
| Coordinates: 32°17′32.03″N 35°12′55.97″E / 32.2922306°N 35.2155472°ECoordinates: 32°17′32.03″N 35°12′55.97″E / 32.2922306°N 35.2155472°E | |
| Governorate | Nablus |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village Council (from 1966) |
| • Head of Municipality | Basheer Samarah |
| Area | |
| • Jurisdiction | 12,100 dunams (12.1 km2 or 4.7 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 2,821 |
| Name meaning | "House of Princes", "The House of Imrin" [1] |
Beit Imrin (Arabic: بيت امرين, transliterated as "House of Princes") is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 18 kilometers northwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the village had a population of 2,821 inhabitants in 2007.[2]
Beit Imrin is an agricultural village with the main products being pulses, grains, vegetables, olives, grapes, alonds and figs. There is a girls' primary school and a boys' secondary school in the village. Other public facilities include a health clinic, telephone and postal services.
History
Beit Imrin was founded by Arabs from nearby Burqa and the Bani Hassan tribe of eastern Jordan who also populated Qarawat Bani Hassan. The towns of Sebastia is located to the southwest, the villages of Ijnisinya and Nisf Jubeil to the south, Burqa to the northwest and Yasid to the east.[3]
In 1596, it appeared in Ottoman tax registers as "Bayt Imrin", a village in the nahiya of Jabal Sami in the liwa of Nablus. It had a population of nine households and two bachelors, all Muslim, and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, occasional revenues, goats and beehives, and a press for olives or grapes.[4]
In the late 19th-century Victor Guérin estimated that Beit Imrin had 700 inhabitants,[5] while in 1882, it was described as "a village of moderate size in the valley at the foot of the Sheikh Beiyzid chain. It is built of stone, and has a spring in the valley to the south, and olives round it on the east and west. Some of the inhabitants are Greek Christians."[6]
In a census conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, Beit Imrin had a population of 527, 15 Christians and 512 Muslims.[7] The population increased in the 1931 census of Palestine to 620, of whom 13 were Christians and 607 Muslims, in a total of 157 occupied houses.[8]
In 1945, the population was 860, all Arabs, with 12,094 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[9] Of this, 1,442 dunams were for plantations or irrigated land, 6,819 for cereals,[10] while 53 dunams were built-up land.[11]
In 1967, the village came under Israeli control, and the same year the population was 1,100.[12]
A village council to administer Beit Imrin's civil affairs was established in 1966 with the first mayor being Ayad Youssef Abdel-Rahman Ahsan. The council consists of nine members including the mayor who currently is Basheer Samarah.[13]
References
- ↑ Palmer 1881, p. 180
- ↑ 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.110.
- ↑ About Beit Imrin Beit Imrin Village Council.
- ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 130.
- ↑ Guerin, 1875, p. 210-211
- ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, p. 159
- ↑ J. B. Barron, ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine. Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 24.
- ↑ 1931 British Mandate Census p. 60.
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in S. Hadawi, Village Statistics, 1945. PLO Research Center, 1970, p. 59
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in S. Hadawi, Village Statistics, 1945. PLO Research Center, 1970, p. 105
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in S. Hadawi, Village Statistics, 1945. PLO Research Center, 1970, p. 155
- ↑ Perlmann, Vol 1, Tab 2: Beit Umrin
- ↑ Beit Imrin Council Members Beit Imrin Village Council.
Bibliography
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- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Guérin, Victor (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. Vol 2; Samarie, pt. 2.
- 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.
- E. Mills, 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).]
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