Yasid Explained

Yasid
Translit Lang1:Arabic
Translit Lang1 Type:Arabic
Translit Lang1 Info:ياصيد
Type:Municipality type D (Village council)
Pushpin Map:Palestine
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Yasid within Palestine
Coordinates:32.2967°N 35.2778°W
Grid Name:Palestine grid
Grid Position:176/189
Subdivision Type:State
Subdivision Name:State of Palestine
Subdivision Type1:Governorate
Subdivision Name1:Nablus
Established Title:Founded
Unit Pref:dunam
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:2505
Population As Of:2017
Population Density Km2:auto
Blank Name Sec1:Name meaning
Blank Info Sec1:from personal name[2]

Yasid (Arabic: ياصيد) is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 15 kilometers northeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 2,291 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 2,505 by 2017.[3]

Location

Yasid is located 8.6 km north of Nablus. It is bordered by Wadi al Far’a to the east, the village of Siris to the north, Beit Imrin and Jaba’ to the west, and Talluza and ‘Asira ash Shamaliya villages to the south.[4]

History

Sherds from Iron Age (I-II)[5] Persian early and late Roman,[5] Byzantine,[5] [6] Early Islamic[5] and Medieval[5] periods have been found here.

Yasid was identified with Yaṣat or Yaset, mentioned in the 9th-8th century BCE Samaria Ostraca (No. 9,-10, 19 and 47)[7] and later in the 6th-7th century Mosaic of Reḥob as a Jewish village in the region of Sebastia which was inhabited mostly by non-Jews and, therefore, agricultural produce obtained from the area could be taken by Jews without the normal restrictions imposed during the Sabbatical years, or the need for tithing.[8]

Ottoman era

Yasid, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596 it was a part of the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Jabal Sami which was under the administration of the liwa ("district") of Nablus. The village had a population of 47 households and 2 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, beehives and/or goats, in addition to occasional revenues and a tax on Muslims in the Nablus area; a total of 7,340 akçe.[9]

In 1838, Yasid was located in the Haritheh District, north of Nablus.[10]

In 1882, in the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP), Yasid was described as "A village of moderate size on a knoll, with a few trees."[11]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Yasid had a population of 308 Muslims,[12] increasing in the 1931 census to 372; 369 Muslims and 3 Christians, in 67 houses.[13]

In the 1945 statistics, Yasid had a population of 480 Muslims[14] while the total land area was 9,222 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[15] Of this, 860 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 4,040 for cereals,[16] while 43 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[17]

Jordanian era

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

In 1961, the population was 714.[18]

Post 1967

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Yasid has been under Israeli occupation, and the same year the population was recorded as 816.[19]

After the 1995 accords, all of the land in Yasid is classified as Area A land.[20]

Demography

Local origins

The residents of Yasid have their origins in Shefa-Amr.[21]

Bibliography

External links

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. 196
  3. http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_pcbs/populati/pop06.aspx Projected Mid -Year Population for Nablus Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006
  4. http://vprofile.arij.org/nablus/pdfs/vprofile/Yasid_vp_en.pdf Yasid Village Profile
  5. Zertal, 2004, pp. 508-509
  6. Dauphin, 1998, p. 763
  7. Book: Zertal, Adam . The Manasseh Hill Country Survey, Volume I: The Shechem Syncline . 2004 . 978-90-474-1352-3 . Leiden . 77 . 1294374548 . The survey findings support its accepted identification with Yaset (y-s-t) of the Samaria Ostraca, nos. 9–10, 19 and 47..
  8. [Aaron Demsky]
  9. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 126
  10. Robinson and Smith, 1941, vol 3, 2nd Appendix, p. 129
  11. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 158
  12. Barron, 1923, Table IX, p. 24
  13. Mills, 1932, p. 66
  14. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 19
  15. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 61
  16. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 108
  17. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 158
  18. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 26
  19. Perlmann, Vol 1, Tab 2: Yasid.
  20. http://vprofile.arij.org/nablus/pdfs/vprofile/Yasid_vp_en.pdf Yasid Village Profile
  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. 351

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