Jalamah Explained
Jalamah (Arabic: جلمه) or Jalameh is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 5 km north of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,304 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 2,268 in 2017.[3]
History
It has been suggested that this was Jiliimna in the list of places conquered by Thutmose III.[4]
Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[5]
Ottoman era
Jalamah, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. During the 16th and 17th centuries, Jalama 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.[6] [7]
In the census of 1596, Jalama appeared as Jalama, located in the nahiya of Sara in the liwa of Lajjun. It had a population of 16 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 8,000 akçe.[8]
In 1838, it was noted as a village in the Jenin district.[9] [10]
In 1870, Victor Guérin noted the village on a hill, which sides had cisterns carved into rock and silos. He estimated the village to have 200 inhabitants, and also noted a kubbeh for a local saint.[11]
In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Shafa al-Qibly.[12]
In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Jelameh as: "Resembles Jabbul. It stands in the plain, surrounded with arable land, and is supplied by cisterns. It has a kubbeh on the north side."[13]
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jalameh had a population of 261; 253 Muslims and 8 Christians,[14] where the Christians were all Orthodox.[15] The population increased in the 1931 census to 304; 300 Muslims and 4 Christians, in a total of 68 houses.[16]
In the 1944/5 statistics the population of Jalama was 460, all Muslims,[17] with 5,827 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[18] Of this, 86 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 4,777 for cereals,[19] while 15 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[20]
Jordanian era
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Jalamah came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 784 inhabitants here.[21]
Post-1967
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Jalamah has been under Israeli occupation.
On 14 September 2022, 2 Palestinians and 1 Israeli soldier were killed in a shootout at an Israeli military checkpoint on the border with the West Bank.[22]
See also
Bibliography
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- Conder, C.R.. Claude Reignier Conder. Palestine before Joshua . Quarterly Statement - Palestine Exploration Fund . 8 . 140–148 . 1876.
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- Book: First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population . Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics . 1964.
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- Book: Hadawi, S.. Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Sami Hadawi. 1970. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
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External links
Notes and References
- February 2018 . Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 . Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) . . 64–82 . 2023-10-24.
- Palmer, 1881, p. 161
- http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_pcbs/populati/pop01.aspx Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006
- Conder, 1876, p. 147
- Dauphin, 1988, p. 744
- Web site: al-Bakhīt . Muḥammad ʻAdnān . al-Ḥamūd . Nūfān Rajā . Daftar mufaṣṣal nāḥiyat Marj Banī ʻĀmir wa-tawābiʻihā wa-lawāḥiqihā allatī kānat fī taṣarruf al-Amīr Ṭarah Bāy sanat 945 ah . 2023-05-15 . www.worldcat.org . Jordanian University . 1–35 . en . Amman . 1989.
- Marom . Roy . Marom . Tepper . Adams . Matthew, J . Lajjun: Forgotten Provincial Capital in Ottoman Palestine . Levant . 10.1080/00758914.2023.2202484.
- Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 161
- Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd app. p. 130
- Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp. 161,167
- Guérin, 1874, pp. 326 - 327
- Book: Grossman, David . Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine . Magnes Press . 2004 . Jerusalem . 256.
- Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 84
- Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
- Barron, 1923, Table XV, p. 47
- Mills, 1932, p. 68
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 148
- Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25
- Web site: Two Palestinians, one Israeli soldier killed in Jenin shoot-out. Al Jazeera. 14 September 2022.