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Kafr Dan

Coordinates: 32°28′43″N 35°15′15″E / 32.47861°N 35.25417°E / 32.47861; 35.25417
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Kafr Dan
Municipality type C
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicكفر دان
 • Latin (official)Kufr Dan
Kafr Dan is located in State of Palestine
Kafr Dan
Kafr Dan
Location of Kafr Dan within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°28′43″N 35°15′15″E / 32.47861°N 35.25417°E / 32.47861; 35.25417
Palestine grid174/209
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateJenin
Government
 • TypeMunicipality
Population
 (2017)[1]
 • Total
6,591
Name meaning"the village of adhan (call to prayer)"[2]

Kafr Dan (Arabic: كفر ذان) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate, located 8 km northwest of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, the town had a population of 5,148 in 2007 and 6,591 in 2017.[1][3]

Location

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Kafr Dan is located north-west of Jenin; just east of Al-Yamun and north of Burqin.

History

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Pottery remains from the Roman, Byzantine, Early Islamic periods and the Middle Ages have been found here.[4]

Palmer suggested to identify Kafr Dan with Capher Outheni (Hebrew: כפר עותני), a village mentioned in the Talmud.[2]

Ottoman era

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Kafr Dan, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. During the 16th and 17th centuries, it belonged to the Turabay Emirate (1517-1683), which encompassed also the Jezreel Valley, Haifa, Jenin, Beit She'an Valley, northern Jabal Nablus, Bilad al-Ruha/Ramot Menashe, and the northern part of the Sharon plain.[5][6]

In the census of 1596, Kafr Dan appeared as "Kafradan”, located in the nahiya of Sha'ara in the liwa of Lajjun. It had a population of 9 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 6,000 akçe.[7] Pottery remains from the Ottoman era have also been found here.[4]

In 1838 Edward Robinson, calling it Kefr Adan, noted it among many other villages on the plain; Lajjun, Umm al-Fahm, Ti'inik, Silat al-Harithiya, Al-Yamun and el Barid,[8] located in the District of Jenin, also called Haritheh esh-Shemaliyeh.[9]

In 1870 Victor Guérin found at Kafr Dan “a broken column and a certain number of cut stones of ancient appearance.”[10] Guérin estimated that the village had 300 inhabitants.[11] In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya of Shafa al-Gharby.[12]

In 1882 the PEF’s Survey of Western Palestine described the area as a "village of moderate size on the slope of the hills, built of stone, with olives below, and a well on the west.” They called the village “Kefr Adan”.[13]

British Mandate era

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In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kufr Dan had a population of 486; all Muslims,[14] increasing in the 1931 census to 603, still all Muslim, in a total of 135 houses.[15]

In the 1945 statistics, the population was 850, all Muslims,[16] with 7,328 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[17] 5 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 2,680 for plantations and irrigable land, 3,799 for cereals,[18] while 34 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[19]

Jordanian era

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

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,262 inhabitants.[20]

Post 1967

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Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Kafr Dan has been under Israeli occupation.

In 2009, Kafr Dan Village Council was upgraded into a municipality. The mayor, Bilal Mer'i, joined with Prime Minister Rami Hamdullah for the ceremony.[21]

References

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  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. ^ a b Palmer, 1881, p. 147
  3. ^ 2007 Locality Population Statistics Archived 2010-12-10 at the Wayback Machine. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). p. 105.
  4. ^ a b Zertal, 2016, pp. 213-214
  5. ^ al-Bakhīt, Muḥammad ʻAdnān; al-Ḥamūd, Nūfān Rajā (1989). "Daftar mufaṣṣal nāḥiyat Marj Banī ʻĀmir wa-tawābiʻihā wa-lawāḥiqihā allatī kānat fī taṣarruf al-Amīr Ṭarah Bāy sanat 945 ah". www.worldcat.org. Amman: Jordanian University. pp. 1–35. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
  6. ^ Marom, Roy; Marom, Tepper; Adams, Matthew, J. "Lajjun: Forgotten Provincial Capital in Ottoman Palestine". Levant. doi:10.1080/00758914.2023.2202484.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 159
  8. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 161
  9. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd Appendix, p. 130
  10. ^ Guerin, 1875, p. 225, as given by Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 54
  11. ^ Guerin, 1875, p. 225
  12. ^ Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 256.
  13. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 45
  14. ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 30
  15. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 67
  16. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 Archived 2018-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54
  18. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 99
  19. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 149
  20. ^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25
  21. ^ "l Koni: We seek to achieve roles integration between local government units and both public and private sectors". 2009. Retrieved 9 March 2016.

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