Ein Mahil
Ein Mahil
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Hebrew transcription(s) | |
• ISO 259 | ʕein Máhel |
Ein Mahil | |
Coordinates: 32°43′23″N 35°21′08″E / 32.72306°N 35.35222°ECoordinates: 32°43′23″N 35°21′08″E / 32.72306°N 35.35222°E | |
Grid position | 183/236 PAL |
District | Northern |
Government | |
• Type | Local council (from 1964) |
Area | |
• Total | 5,203 dunams (5.203 km2 or 2.009 sq mi) |
Population (2015)[1] | |
• Total | 12,484 |
Name meaning | "The spring of the barren land."[2] |
Ein Mahil (Arabic: عين ماهل; Hebrew: עֵין מָהִל) is an Arab local council in the Northern District of Israel, located about five kilometers north-east of Nazareth. It was declared a local council in 1964. In 2015 it had a population of 12,484,[1] the majority of which are Muslims.
History
In 1596, Ein Mahil appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Tabariyya of the Liwa of Safad. It had a population of 28 Muslim households, and paid taxes on wheat, barley, fruit trees, and goats or beehives.[3] A map by Pierre Jacotin, from 1799 showed the place named Ain el Mahel.[4]
The French explorer Victor Guérin passed by the village in the 1875, and described it as having 10 poor dwellings, surrounded by gardens of olives, figs and pomegranates.[5] In 1881 the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as a "Stone village, situated on very high ground, surrounded by figs and olives and arable land. It contains about 200 Moslems, and has near it a fine group of springs."[6]
A population list from about 1887 showed that ’Ain Mahil had about 195 Muslim inhabitants.[7]
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, 'Ain Mahel had a population of 516, all Muslims.[8] The population increased in the 1931 census of Palestine to 628, of whom 1 was Christian and the rest Muslims, in a total of 109 occupied houses.[9]
In 1945 the population was 1,040 Muslims,[10] with 13,390 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[11] Of this, 1,486 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 6,748 for cereals,[12] while 35 dunams were built-up land.[13]
See also
References
- 1 2 "List of localities, in Alphabetical order" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 122
- ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 189
- ↑ Karmon, 1960, p. 167
- ↑ Guérin, 1880, p. 382
- ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 362
- ↑ Schumacher, 1888, p. 184
- ↑ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Nazareth, p. 38
- ↑ Mills, 1932, p.73
- ↑ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 8
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 62
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 109
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 159
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. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- Guérin, Victor (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 3: Galilee, pt. 1. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
- Karmon, Y. (1960). "An Analysis of Jacotin's Map of Palestine" (PDF). Israel Exploration Journal. 10 (3,4): 155–173; 244–253.
- 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.
- Rhode, Harold (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University.
- Schumacher, G. (1888). "Population list of the Liwa of Akka". Quarterly statement - Palestine Exploration Fund. 20: 169–191.
External links
- Welcome To 'Ayn Mahil
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 6: IAA, Wikimedia commons