Shabtin Explained

Shabtin
Translit Lang1:Arabic
Translit Lang1 Type:Arabic
Translit Lang1 Info:شبتين/شبطين
Type:Municipality type C
Pushpin Map:Palestine
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Shabtin within Palestine
Coordinates:31.9739°N 35.0497°W
Grid Name:Palestine grid
Grid Position:154/153
Subdivision Type:State
Subdivision Type1:Governorate
Subdivision Name1:Ramallah and al-Bireh
Established Title:Founded
Government Type:Municipality
Unit Pref:dunam
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:1136
Population As Of:2017
Population Density Km2:auto
Blank Name Sec1:Name meaning
Blank Info Sec1:from personal name[2]

Shabtin is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the central West Bank.

Shabtin is located 14.4km (08.9miles) north-west of Ramallah. Shabtin is bordered by Al Itihad to the east, Shuqba to the north, Ni'lin to the west, and Deir Qaddis to the south.[3]

Etymology

The name Šabtīn /Šibtīn/ is Aramaic, and means ““sticks, canes”.[4]

History

Just southeast of the village (at grid no. 1544/1528) is Kh. Shabtin, where pottery sherds from the Persian,[5] Persian/Hellenistic,[5] late Roman,[6] Byzantine[5] [6] Umayyad/Abbasid eras have been found.[5] The SWP noted "Traces of ruins" here.[7]

Pottery sherds from the Roman/Byzantine eras have been found at Shabtin.[8]

During the Crusader era, the area was a Crusader stronghold, centred around Aboud. Remains of a house from Crusader era have been identified in the centre of Shabtin.[9]

Sherds from the Mamluk era have been found in Shabtin, together with a hoard of 45 Mamluk gold coins.[8]

Ottoman era

The current village was founded in the 18th century or in the early 19th century.[10]

Sherds from the early Ottoman era has also been found here.[8]

In the 1840s, the village got caught up in the Qays–Yaman rivalry and was at one time plundered.[11]

In 1870, Victor Guérin noted the village, Cheptin, on the slopes of a hill in the distance.[12] An Ottoman village list of the same year, 1870, showed that Schetin had 16 houses and a population of 42, though the population count only included men.[13] [14]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described ‘’Shebtin’’ as: "a small village in a valley, with a well to the east. It appears to be an ancient site, and has rock cut tombs south of it."[15]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Shebtin had a population of 63 inhabitants, all Muslims,[16] increasing in the 1931 census to a population of 110, still all Muslim, in 20 houses.[17]

In 1945 statistics the population of Shabtin was 150 Muslims,[18] with 4,423 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[19] Of this, 27 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,158 dunams for cereals,[20] while 7 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[21]

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Shabtin came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 232 inhabitants.[22]

Post-1967

During the Six-Day War in 1967, Shabtin came under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 7.2% of Shabtin land was classified as Area B, the remaining 92.8% as Area C.[23]

Israel has confiscated 1,781 dunams of land from Shabtin in order to construct two settlements, Nili and Na'aleh.[24]

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. 241
  3. http://vprofile.arij.org/ramallah/pdfs/vprofile/Shabtin.pdf Shabtin Village Profile
  4. 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.
  5. Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 194
  6. Dauphin, 1998, p. 830
  7. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 355
  8. Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 195
  9. Ellenblum, 2003, pp. 134, 180
  10. 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. 347
  11. Macalister and Masterman, 1906, pp. 43-44
  12. Guérin, 1875, p. 81
  13. Socin, 1879, p.161 It was also noted to be in the Ramla district, and noted after Der Kaddis
  14. Hartmann, 1883, p. 140, also noted 16 houses
  15. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 298
  16. Barron, 1923, Table VII, Division Jaffa, Sub-district of Ramleh, p. 22
  17. Mills, 1932, p. 23
  18. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 30
  19. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 68
  20. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 117
  21. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 167
  22. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 24
  23. http://vprofile.arij.org/ramallah/pdfs/vprofile/Shabtin.pdf Shabtin Village Profile
  24. http://vprofile.arij.org/ramallah/pdfs/vprofile/Shabtin.pdf Shabtin Village Profile

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