Qaffin Explained

Qaffin
Translit Lang1:Arabic
Translit Lang1 Type:Arabic
Translit Lang1 Info:قفّين
Translit Lang1 Type1:Latin
Translit Lang1 Info1:Qaffein (official)
Type:Municipality type B
Pushpin Map:Palestine
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Qaffin within Palestine
Coordinates:32.4333°N 35.0836°W
Grid Name:Palestine grid
Grid Position:158/204
Subdivision Type:State
Subdivision Name:State of Palestine
Subdivision Type1:Governorate
Subdivision Name1:Tulkarm
Established Title:Founded
Leader Title:Head of Municipality
Leader Name:Tayseer Harsha
Unit Pref:dunam
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:10690
Population As Of:2017
Population Density Km2:auto
Blank Name Sec1:Name meaning
Blank Info Sec1:Kuffin: a rugged hill[2]

Qaffin (ar|قفّين) is a Palestinian town located 22km (14miles) northeast of Tulkarm in the Tulkarm Governorate in the northwestern West Bank. The town is an agricultural town. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, its population consisted over 8,387 inhabitants in 2007 and 10,690 in 2017.[3] The built-up area of the town is 1,000 dunams.[4]

History

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[5]

In 1265, Qaffin was one of the estates given by Sultan Baibars to his followers after his victory over the Crusaders.[6] Half of Qaffin was given to emir Rukn al-Din Baibars al-Mu'izzi.[7]

Ottoman era

In 1517 the village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine. During the 16th and 17th centuries, 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.[8] [9]

In the 1596 Ottoman tax-records a village named Qaffin appeared part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Jenin under the liwa' (district) of Lajjun, with a population of 27 Muslim households. They paid taxes on a number of products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 9,000 akçe.[10]

In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya of Shafa al-Gharby.[11]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described the village, then named Kuffin as: "A good sized village on the low hills east of the Plain of Sharon, with a well on the south side. It has rock cut tombs, and a palm grows near the village."[12]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kaffin had a population of 721 Muslims,[13] increasing in the 1931 census to 1,085 Muslims, living in 255 houses.[14]

In the 1945 statistics the population of Qaffin, (including Kh. el Aqqaba and Kh. esh Sheik Meisar) was 1,570 Muslims,[15] and the land area was 23,755 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.[16] Of this, 5,863 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 8,371 were used for cereals,[17] while 40 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[18]

Jordanian era

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

In 1961, the population of Qaffin was 2,457.[19]

Post 1967

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Qaffin has been under Israeli occupation.

Demographics

The village's residents came from different places, including Hebron, 'Arura, the Ayalon Valley, and Bedouin communities.[21]

Bibliography

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Notes and References

  1. February 2018 . Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 . Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) . . 64–82 . 2023-10-24.
  2. Palmer, 1881, p. 150
  3. http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1487.pdf 2007 PCBS census
  4. http://www.poica.org/editor/case_studies/view.php?recordID=1092 Israeli Settlers set fire into 200 dunums of Qaffin Village Lands
  5. Dauphin, 1998, p. 753
  6. Zertal, 2016, pp. 316-317
  7. [Ibn al-Furat]
  8. 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.
  9. Marom . R. . Roy Marom. Tepper . Y.. Yotam Tepper. Adams . M.. Matthew J. Adams. Lajjun: Forgotten Provincial Capital in Ottoman Palestine . Levant . 2023 . 55 . 2 . 218–241 . 10.1080/00758914.2023.2202484. 258602184 .
  10. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 161. They also state that this Qaffin does not coincide with the borders of nahiya Jinin, but Zertal, 2016, p. 316 have included it in this place.
  11. Book: Grossman, David . Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine . Magnes Press . 2004 . Jerusalem . 257.
  12. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 47
  13. Barron, 1923, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 30.
  14. Mills, 1932, p. 70
  15. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 21
  16. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 76
  17. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 127
  18. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 177
  19. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 14
  20. [Gideon Levy]
  21. 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. 345

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