at-Tayba | |
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Arabic transcription(s) | |
• Arabic | خربة الطيبه |
Location of at-Tayba within
Palestine | |
Coordinates: 32°30′55″N 35°11′21″E / 32.51528°N 35.18917°E | |
Palestine grid | 167/213 |
State | State of Palestine |
Governorate | Jenin |
Government | |
• Type | Municipality |
Population (2017) | |
• Total | 2,215 [1] |
Name meaning | The goodly [2] |
At-Tayba ( Arabic: خربة الطيبه) is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 18 km northwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank, and 2 km east of Umm el-Fahm in Israel. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,386 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 2,215 in 2017. [3] [1]
The current village was covering as of 2016 the slopes surrounding an ancient khirba (ruined village), Khirbet et-Taiybeh. [4] The ancient village only covered the southern slope of a hill and the ravine to its south. [4] Excavations indicate that it was mainly active in the Late Roman, [4] Byzantine, [4] [5] and Medieval periods, [4] with lesser findings from the Persian, Early Muslim and Ottoman periods. [4]
All of Palestine was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517.
Zertal writes that after no mention of the village in Medieval sources, a "Tayyiba" of six Muslim households appears in the Ottoman census of 1596, but he found no proof that this is the same settlement as the future Khirbet et-Taiybeh, known today as At-Tayba. [4] Hütteroth and Abdulfattah also mention the 1596 tax register with "Tayyiba" being part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Sha'ara under the liwa' (district) of Lajjun, with a population of 6 Muslim households. [6] The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, beehives and/or goats, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 3,500 akçe. [6]
Al-Tayiba began as a small dependency of the so-called "Fahmawi Commonwealth" established by Hebronite clans belonging to Umm al-Fahm. The Commonwealth consisted of a network of interspersed communities connected by ties of kinship, and socially, economically and politically affiliated with Umm al Fahm. The Commonwealth dominated vast sections of Bilad al-Ruha/Ramot Menashe, Wadi 'Ara and Marj Ibn 'Amir/Jezreel Valley during that time. [7]
In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village, as Tayibat Umm al-Fahm (with a classifier after the major neighboring village) in the nahiya of Shafa al-Gharby. [8]
In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine found here "a modern ruined village with springs." [9]
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, At-Tayba came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 467 inhabitants in Taiyiba. [10]
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, At-Tayba has been under Israeli occupation.[ citation needed]
at-Tayba | |
---|---|
Arabic transcription(s) | |
• Arabic | خربة الطيبه |
Location of at-Tayba within
Palestine | |
Coordinates: 32°30′55″N 35°11′21″E / 32.51528°N 35.18917°E | |
Palestine grid | 167/213 |
State | State of Palestine |
Governorate | Jenin |
Government | |
• Type | Municipality |
Population (2017) | |
• Total | 2,215 [1] |
Name meaning | The goodly [2] |
At-Tayba ( Arabic: خربة الطيبه) is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 18 km northwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank, and 2 km east of Umm el-Fahm in Israel. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,386 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 2,215 in 2017. [3] [1]
The current village was covering as of 2016 the slopes surrounding an ancient khirba (ruined village), Khirbet et-Taiybeh. [4] The ancient village only covered the southern slope of a hill and the ravine to its south. [4] Excavations indicate that it was mainly active in the Late Roman, [4] Byzantine, [4] [5] and Medieval periods, [4] with lesser findings from the Persian, Early Muslim and Ottoman periods. [4]
All of Palestine was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517.
Zertal writes that after no mention of the village in Medieval sources, a "Tayyiba" of six Muslim households appears in the Ottoman census of 1596, but he found no proof that this is the same settlement as the future Khirbet et-Taiybeh, known today as At-Tayba. [4] Hütteroth and Abdulfattah also mention the 1596 tax register with "Tayyiba" being part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Sha'ara under the liwa' (district) of Lajjun, with a population of 6 Muslim households. [6] The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, beehives and/or goats, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 3,500 akçe. [6]
Al-Tayiba began as a small dependency of the so-called "Fahmawi Commonwealth" established by Hebronite clans belonging to Umm al-Fahm. The Commonwealth consisted of a network of interspersed communities connected by ties of kinship, and socially, economically and politically affiliated with Umm al Fahm. The Commonwealth dominated vast sections of Bilad al-Ruha/Ramot Menashe, Wadi 'Ara and Marj Ibn 'Amir/Jezreel Valley during that time. [7]
In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village, as Tayibat Umm al-Fahm (with a classifier after the major neighboring village) in the nahiya of Shafa al-Gharby. [8]
In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine found here "a modern ruined village with springs." [9]
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, At-Tayba came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 467 inhabitants in Taiyiba. [10]
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, At-Tayba has been under Israeli occupation.[ citation needed]