Talfit
| Talfit | |
|---|---|
| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | تلفيت |
  Talfit | |
| Coordinates: 32°05′19″N 35°17′29″E / 32.08861°N 35.29139°ECoordinates: 32°05′19″N 35°17′29″E / 32.08861°N 35.29139°E | |
| Governorate | Nablus |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village Council |
| • Head of Municipality | Raed Ershed |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 2,824 |
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
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.[3]
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.[4]
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Talfit had a population of 352, all Muslims,[5] increasing in the 1931 census to 464, still all Muslim, in 116 occupied houses.[6]
In 1945 Telfit had a population of 610, all Arabs, with 6,258 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[7] Of this, 3,309 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,228 used for cereals,[8] while 49 dunams were built-up land.[9]
References
- ↑ Palmer, 1881 p. 245
- ↑ 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p. 110.
- ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 133
- ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, p. 288
- ↑ J. B. Barron, ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine. Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus.
- ↑ 1931 British Mandate Census. p. 65.
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in S. Hadawi, Village Statistics, 1945. PLO Research Center, 1970, p. 61
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in S. Hadawi, Village Statistics, 1945. PLO Research Center, 1970, p. 108
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in S. Hadawi, Village Statistics, 1945. PLO Research Center, 1970, p. 158
Bibliography
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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