Taffuh
| Taffuh | |
|---|---|
| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | تفّوح |
  Taffuh Location of Taffuh within Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°32′21.08″N 35°3′11.1″E / 31.5391889°N 35.053083°ECoordinates: 31°32′21.08″N 35°3′11.1″E / 31.5391889°N 35.053083°E | |
| Governorate | Hebron |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 10,597 |
Taffuh (Arabic: تفّوح) (lit. fragrance) is a Palestinian town located eight kilometers west of Hebron.The town is in the Hebron Governorate in the southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of over 10,597 in 2007.[1]
History
The city of Beth-tappuah, literally House of Apple [tree], cited in the Book of Joshua (15: 53), is often located in the hill country of the Tribe of Judah, 5 km west northwest of Hebron.[2] Archaeological finds in the vicinity of the hill site include remains of an ancient road, a well to the west, cisterns, and rock-cuttings.[3] Although identified now with the modern Arab village established not far from the cite in the modern times, this is disputed.[4]
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Taffuh had a population of 461, all Muslims,[5] increasing in the 1931 census to 580, still all Muslim, in 124 houses.[6]
In 1945 the population of Taffuh was 780, all Arabs, who owned 12,103 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.[7] 1,073 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 3,543 for cereals,[8] while 31 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[9]
Footnotes
- ↑ 2007 PCBS Census Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.119.
- ↑ Woudstra, Marten H., The book of Joshua, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, 1981, p.251
- ↑ Bagatti, Bellarmino, Ancient Christian villages of Judaea and the Negev, Franciscan Printing Press, 2002, p.59
- ↑ Wilkinson, John, Hill, Joyce, Ryan, William Francis, Jerusalem pilgrimage, 1099-1185, Hakluyt Society, 1988, p.58, note 13
- ↑ Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Hebron, p. 10
- ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 34.
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 50
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 94
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 143
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. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (pp. 310, 379 )
- Guérin, Victor (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 1: Judee, pt. 3. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (p. 374 )
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- 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. (p. 408 )
- Socin, A. (1879). "Alphabetisches Verzeichniss von Ortschaften des Paschalik Jerusalem". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 2: 135–163. (p. 161 )
External links
- Welcome To Taffuh
- SWP map 21, IAA
- SWP map 21, Wikimedia commons
- Taffuh Town (Fact Sheet), ARIJ
- Taffuh Town Profile, ARIJ
- Taffuh Areal Photo, ARIJ
- The priorities and needs for development in Taffuh town based on the community and local authorities’ assessment, ARIJ
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