| Tell | |
| Translit Lang1: | Arabic |
| Translit Lang1 Type: | Arabic |
| Translit Lang1 Info: | Arabic: تلّ |
| Translit Lang1 Type1: | Latin |
| Translit Lang1 Info1: | Tel (official) Tall (unofficial) |
| Type: | Municipality type D (Village council) |
| Pushpin Map: | Palestine#West Bank |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Tell within Palestine |
| Coordinates: | 32.2008°N 35.2131°W |
| Grid Name: | Palestine grid |
| Grid Position: | 170/178 |
| Subdivision Type: | State |
| Subdivision Name: | State of Palestine |
| Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
| Subdivision Name1: | Nablus |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Leader Title: | Head of Municipality |
| Leader Name: | Omar Abdel Latif Eshtaia |
| Unit Pref: | dunam |
| Area Total Km2: | 13.8 |
| Area Total Dunam: | 13776 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 5162 |
| Population As Of: | 2017 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Name meaning |
| Blank Info Sec1: | "Mound"[2] |
Tell (Arabic: تلّ), pronounced Till, is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located five kilometers southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 5,162 inhabitants in 2017. Most of the town's laborers work in agriculture, with figs and olives being the major source of income.[3]
Mohammad Shtayyeh, a Palestinian economist and politician, was born in Tell.
Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[4]
In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and it appeared in the 1596 tax-records as Till, located in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal of the Liwa of Nablus. The population was 46 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues, a press for olive oil or grape syrup, and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 5,100 akçe.[5]
In 1838, Till was located in the District of Jurat 'Amra, south of Nablus.[6]
In 1863, Victor Guérin found it to have a population of one thousand inhabitants. It was divided into several districts, each administered by a different sheikh. He further noted: "Some houses are large and fairly well built. Around the village grow, in pens, beautiful plantations of fig and pomegranate trees."[7]
In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Jamma'in al-Thani, subordinate to Nablus.[8]
In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Till as: "A village of moderate size on low ground, with a high mound behind it on the south; it has a well and a few trees, and on the west a pool in winter; the hills to the north are bare and white, but terraced to the very top."[9]
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Tel had a population of 567 Muslims,[10] increasing in the 1931 census to 803 Muslims, in 209 houses.[11]
In the 1945 statistics the population was 1,060 Muslims,[12] while the total land area was 13,766 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[13] Of this, 1,056 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 7,023 for cereals,[14] while 55 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[15]
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Tell came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,539 inhabitants.[16]
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Tell has been held under Israeli military occupation.
