Umm al-Tut
Umm al-Tut | |
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| Arabic transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | ام التوت |
  Umm al-Tut Location of Umm al-Tut within Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°25′56″N 35°20′40″E / 32.43222°N 35.34444°E | |
| Palestine grid | 182/204 |
| State | State of Palestine |
| Governorate | Jenin |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| Population (2017)[1] | |
| • Total | 1,194 |
| Name meaning | "The place with the mulberries"[2] "The mother of all strawberries"[3] |
Umm al-Tut (Arabic: ام التوت, romanized: ām al-tūt, literally "Mulberries Place") is a Palestinian village 6 km southeast of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 1003 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 1,194 by 2017.[1][4]
History
[edit]In 1517 Umm al-Tut was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine. 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] Its original residents reportedly came from the areas of Nablus and Ramallah.[7]
In 1870, Umm al-Tut, called Oumm et-Toutah, situated south of Deir Abu Da'if, was one of the villages Victor Guérin noted from Faqqua.[8]
In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described the village as resembling El Mughair, and that it stood "amongst dense thickets on the north and west, and has open plough-land on the south."[9]
British Mandate era
[edit]In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Umm al-Tut had a population 94 Muslims,[10] increasing in the 1931 census to 129 Muslims, in a total of 24 houses.[11]
In 1945 statistics the population was 170 Muslims,[12] with 4,876 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[13] Of this, 132 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,705 dunams were for cereals,[14] while a total of 6 dunams were built-up, urban land.[15]
Jordanian era
[edit]Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and the subsequent 1949 Armistice Agreements, Umm al-Tut came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 266 inhabitants in Um Tut.[16]
Post-1967
[edit]Since the 1967 Six-Day War Umm al-Tut has been under Israeli occupation.
The village is a major center of natural resources, nearby villages use 10% of Umm al-Tut's abundant surplus of fuel wood and also rely on Umm al-Tut's many pastures to raise their livestock.[17] Because of this, Umm al-Tut is under notably ample pressure due to increases in illegal/unauthorized grazing, logging, hunting, and waste disposal, as well as unlawful seizures of property by neighboring villages to convert into agricultural stock.[17]
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. 170
- ^ Haaretz
- ^ Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Archived 2008-09-20 at the Wayback Machine Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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) - ^ 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
- ^ Guérin, 1874, p. 336
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 82
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 71
- ^ Government of Palestine, 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
- ^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25
- ^ a b "About Umm at-Tut | Mahmiyat.ps".
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.
- Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics (1964). First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population (PDF).
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
- Guérin, V. (1874). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 2: Samarie, pt. 1. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
- 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.
External links
[edit]- Welcome To Umm al-Tut
- Umm al-Tut, Welcome to Palestine
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 9: IAA, Wikimedia commons
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