Talfit, Jenin
Telfit | |
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| Arabic transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | تلفت |
| • Latin | Telfit, Tilfit, Talfit |
  Telfit Location of Telfit within Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°24′4″N 35°20′25″E / 32.40111°N 35.34028°E | |
| Palestine grid | 182/200 |
| State |  State of Palestine |
| Governorate | Jenin |
| Government | |
| • Type | Local Development Committee |
| Population (2017)[1] | |
| • Total | 439 |
| Name meaning | "The Ruin of Telfit"[2] |
Telfit (Arabic: تلفيت; or Tilfit) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, located southeast of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, the village had a population of 238 in 2007 and 439 by 2017.[1][3]
Situated on an isolated tell in the Zababdeh Valley, Telfit has an elevation of 390 meters above sea level.[4] Nearby localities include Kufeir to the south, Zababdeh to the southwest, Qabatiya to the west, Umm at-Tut to the north, Jalqamus and al-Mughayyir to the northeast and Raba to the southeast. The principal water source is Ein Ginai, 6 kilometers to the west and there are 35 cisterns in the village. In 1980 Telfit's built-up area consisted of 15 dunams.[4]
History
[edit]The northern and westerns parts of Telfit contain ruins dating to the Byzantine[4][5] and Early Islamic periods between the 5th-8th centuries. Ancient building material is used in some of the houses.[4]
Ottoman era
[edit]Telfit is absent from 16th century records. It was initially settled by people from Qabatiya. It is likely that the village was not inhabited before the 18th century.[6]
In 1838, during the Ottoman era, ‘’Telfit’’ was noted as a Muslim village in the Haritheh area, north of Nablus.[7]
The PEF's Survey of Western Palestine noted in 1882 that the place (then called "Khurbet Telfit") had modern masonry.[8]
British Mandate era
[edit]In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Telfit had a population of 43; 24 Muslims and 19 Christians,[9] where the Christians were all Orthodox.[10] The population increased in the 1931 census to 120; all Muslim, in a total of 26 houses.[11]
In the 1945 statistics the population was 170; all Muslims,[12] with 6,627 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[13] 194 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 2,726 dunams for cereals,[14] while a total of 3,707 dunams were non-cultivable land.[15]
1948-1967
[edit]In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Telfit came under Jordanian rule.
post-1967
[edit]Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Telfit has been under Israeli occupation.
Demography
[edit]Diaspora
[edit]Most of the village's residents are descendants of refugees from Arabia and Turkmen from Central Asia, who work as land tenants.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 202
- ^ 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p. 105.
- ^ a b c d Zertal, 2007, p. 122
- ^ Dauphin, 1998, p. 789
- ^ a b Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 350
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 130
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 240
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table XV, p. 47
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 71
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 17
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 55
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 100
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 150
Bibliography
[edit]- Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Dauphin, C. (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). Vol. III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. ISBN 0-860549-05-4.
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- 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.
- Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
- Zertal, A. (2007). The Manasseh Hill Country Survey. Vol. 2. Boston: BRILL. ISBN 9004163697.
External links
[edit]- Welcome To Tilfit
- Tilfit, Welsome to Palestine
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 12: IAA, Wikimedia commons
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