Kharbatha al-Misbah explained

Kharbatha al-Misbah
Translit Lang1:Arabic
Translit Lang1 Type:Arabic
Translit Lang1 Info:خربثا المصباح
Translit Lang1 Type1:Latin
Translit Lang1 Info1:Kharbatha al-Misbah (official)
Khirbet al-Misbah, Khurbetha ibn es Seba (unofficial)
Type:Municipality type D (Village council)
Pushpin Map:Palestine
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Kharbatha al-Misbah within Palestine
Coordinates:31.8847°N 35.0717°W
Grid Name:Palestine grid
Grid Position:156/143
Subdivision Type:State
Subdivision Name:State of Palestine
Subdivision Type1:Governorate
Subdivision Name1:Ramallah and al-Bireh
Established Title:Founded
Leader Title:Head of Municipality
Leader Name:Sa'di Jabir Ibrahim Daraj[1]
Unit Pref:dunam
Area Total Km2:4.4
Area Total Dunam:4431
Elevation Footnotes:[2]
Elevation M:390
Population Footnotes:[3]
Population Total:6366
Population As Of:2017
Population Density Km2:auto
Blank Name Sec1:Name meaning
Blank Info Sec1:"The Ruins of the son of the wild beast, or "of seven""[4]

Kharbatha al-Misbah (Arabic: خربثا المصباح) is a Palestinian town in the central West Bank, located 12.5km (07.8miles) west of Ramallah in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 6,366 in 2017. It has a total land area of 4,431 dunams, of which 644 are built-up areas and the remainder agricultural lands and forests.[5]

Location

Kharbatha al Misbah is located 12.5km (07.8miles) west of Ramallah. It is bordered by Beit Ur al Fauqa to the east, Beit Ur at Tahta to the north, Beit Sira to the west, and Beit Liqya to the south.[2]

Etymology

Ḫarbatā /Ḫarbata/ is an Aramaic toponym meaning “the ruin”.[6] The second part of the name means "lamp".[7]

History

In 1838, it was noted as a Muslim village called Khurbata in the Lydda administrative region.[8] [9]

In 1863, Victor Guérin found the village to have 400 inhabitants, along with ruins identified in local tradition as the remains of a Christian church. He further noted five or six cisterns, and ancient tombs. Guérin thought that this was an ancient place that was founded on a Hebrew settlement whose original name had been lost.[10]

Socin found from an official Ottoman village list from about 1870 that the village, called Charabta, had a population of 194, with a total of 71 houses, though the population count included only men.[11] Hartmann found that Charabta had 78 houses.[12]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described the village, then called Khurbetha ibn es Seba, as "a small village on a ridge, with a well to the east."[13]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kherbet al-Mesbah had a population of 369, all Muslim.[14] In the 1931 census it had increased to a population of 488, still all Muslim, in 121 inhabited houses.[15]

In the 1945 statistics, the population of Khirbat el Misbah was 600, all Muslims,[16] who owned 4,438 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.[17] 1,026 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 2,133 used for cereals,[18] while 25 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[19]

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Kharbatha al-Misbah came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 942 inhabitants in Kh. Misbah.[20]

There are two mosques in the town: Omri Mosque and al-Kawthar Mosque. The former was built atop the ruins of an ancient church and was renovated in 1965. Within the town, still lay Ancient Roman cemeteries. It has been governed by a village council.[21]

1967-present

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Kharbatha al-Misbah has been under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 19% of village land was classified as Area B, while the remaining 81% was classified as Area C. Israel has confiscated 61 dunams of village land in order to build the Israeli settlement of Beit Horon.[22]

See also

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.elections.ps/pdf/Municipal_Elections_Results_EN_(2).pdf West Bank
  2. http://vprofile.arij.org/ramallah/pdfs/vprofile/Kharbatha_al_Misbah_vp_en.pdf Kharbatha al Misbah Village Profile
  3. February 2018 . Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 . Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) . . 64–82 . 2023-10-24.
  4. Palmer, 1881, p. 313
  5. http://www.poica.org/editor/case_studies/view.php?recordID=749 New Colonial Road to be constructed on lands of western Ramallah Villages
  6. Marom . Roy . Zadok . Ran . 2023 . Early-Ottoman Palestinian Toponymy: A Linguistic Analysis of the (Micro-)Toponyms in Haseki Sultan’s Endowment Deed (1552) . Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins . en . 139 . 2.
  7. Palmer, Name Lists, 1881.
  8. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 121
  9. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 66
  10. Guérin, 1875, p. 347
  11. Socin, 1879, p. 149 Also noted that it was located in the Lydda District
  12. Hartmann, 1883, p. 138
  13. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 15
  14. Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramallah, p. 17
  15. Mills, 1932, p. 50
  16. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 26
  17. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 65
  18. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 112
  19. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 162
  20. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 24
  21. http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/Kh__al_Misbah_1314/Article_9139.html History of the Village
  22. http://vprofile.arij.org/ramallah/pdfs/vprofile/Kharbatha_al_Misbah_vp_en.pdf Kharbatha al Misbah Village Profile

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