Umm al-Tut explained

Umm al-Tut
Translit Lang1:Arabic
Translit Lang1 Type:Arabic
Translit Lang1 Info:ام التوت
Type:Municipality type D (Village council)
Pushpin Map:Palestine
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Umm al-Tut within Palestine
Coordinates:32.4322°N 35.3444°W
Grid Name:Palestine grid
Grid Position:182/204
Subdivision Type:State
Subdivision Name:State of Palestine
Subdivision Type1:Governorate
Subdivision Name1:Jenin
Established Title:Founded
Unit Pref:dunam
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:1194
Population As Of:2017
Population Density Km2:auto
Blank Name Sec1:Name meaning
Blank Info Sec1:"The place with the mulberries"[2]
"The mother of all strawberries"[3]

Umm al-Tut (Arabic: ام التوت|ām al-tūt, literally "Mulberries Place") is a Palestinian village 6 km southeast of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 1003 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 1,194 by 2017.[4]

History

In 1517 Umm al-Tut was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine. During the 16th and 17th centuries, it 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.[5] [6] Its original residents reportedly came from the areas of Nablus and Ramallah.[7]

In 1870, Umm al-Tut, called Oumm et-Toutah, situated south of Deir Abu Da'if, was one of the villages Victor Guérin noted from Faqqua.[8]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described the village as resembling El Mughair, and that it stood "amongst dense thickets on the north and west, and has open plough-land on the south."[9]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Umm al-Tut had a population 94 Muslims,[10] increasing in the 1931 census to 129 Muslims, in a total of 24 houses.[11]

In 1945 statistics the population was 170 Muslims,[12] with 4,876 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[13] Of this, 132 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,705 dunams were for cereals,[14] while a total of 6 dunams were built-up, urban land.[15]

Jordanian era

Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and the subsequent 1949 Armistice Agreements, Umm al-Tut came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 266 inhabitants in Um Tut.[16]

Post-1967

Since the 1967 Six-Day War Umm al-Tut has been under Israeli occupation.

The village is a major center of natural resources, nearby villages use 10% of Umm al-Tut's abundant surplus of fuel wood and also rely on Umm al-Tut's many pastures to raise their livestock.[17] Because of this, Umm al-Tut is under notably ample pressure due to increases in illegal/unauthorized grazing, logging, hunting, and waste disposal, as well as unlawful seizures of property by neighboring villages to convert into agricultural stock.

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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. 170
  3. http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/a-palestinian-farmer-goes-back-to-his-roots-1.463187 Haaretz
  4. http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_pcbs/populati/pop01.aspx Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006
  5. 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.
  6. Marom . Roy . Marom . Tepper . Adams . Matthew, J . Lajjun: Forgotten Provincial Capital in Ottoman Palestine . Levant . 10.1080/00758914.2023.2202484.
  7. 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. 350
  8. Guérin, 1874, p. 336
  9. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 82
  10. Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
  11. Mills, 1932, p. 71
  12. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 17
  13. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 55
  14. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 100
  15. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 150
  16. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25
  17. Web site: About Umm at-Tut | Mahmiyat.ps.

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