Tell (Arabic: تلّ), pronounced Till, is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located five kilometers southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 5,162 inhabitants in 2017.[1] Most of the town's laborers work in agriculture, with figs and olives being the major source of income.[3]

Mohammad Shtayyeh, a Palestinian economist and politician, was born in Tell.

History

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[4]

Ottoman era

In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine, and it appeared in the 1596 tax-records as Till, located in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal of the Liwa of Nablus. The population was 46 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues, a press for olive oil or grape syrup, and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 5,100 akçe.[5]

In 1838, Till was located in the District of Jurat 'Amra, south of Nablus.[6]

In 1863, Victor Guérin found it to have a population of one thousand inhabitants. It was divided into several districts, each administered by a different sheikh. He further noted: "Some houses are large and fairly well built. Around the village grow, in pens, beautiful plantations of fig and pomegranate trees."[7]

In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Jamma'in al-Thani, subordinate to Nablus.[8]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Till as: "A village of moderate size on low ground, with a high mound behind it on the south; it has a well and a few trees, and on the west a pool in winter; the hills to the north are bare and white, but terraced to the very top."[9]

British mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Tel had a population of 567 Muslims,[10] increasing in the 1931 census to 803 Muslims, in 209 houses.[11]

In the 1945 statistics the population was 1,060 Muslims,[12] while the total land area was 13,766 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[13] Of this, 1,056 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 7,023 for cereals,[14] while 55 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[15]

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Tell came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,539 inhabitants.[16]

1967, aftermath

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Tell has been held under Israeli military occupation.

References

  1. ^ a b Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report). State of Palestine. February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  2. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 194
  3. ^ Israeli Forces Storm Tel village In Nablus Governorate Archived 2011-05-19 at the Wayback Machine Land Research Center. 2001-12-20
  4. ^ Dauphin, 1998, p. 798
  5. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 134
  6. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 127
  7. ^ Guérin, 1875, p. 178
  8. ^ Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 252.
  9. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 164
  10. ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, p. 24
  11. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 65
  12. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 19
  13. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 61
  14. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 108
  15. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 158
  16. ^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 24

Bibliography

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