Palestinian town near Ramallah, West Bank
Municipality type C in Ramallah and al-Bireh, State of Palestine
Mazari an-Nubani (
Arabic : مزارع النوباني ) is a
Palestinian town in the
Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate , located 25 kilometers North of
Ramallah in the northern
West Bank . According to the
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 2,436 inhabitants in 2017.
[1]
History
Mazari al-Nubani was by earlier scholars (
Röhricht ,
Prawer and
Benvenisti ) identified with the
Crusader village called Mezera , but newer scholars (
Finkelstein et al.) disputes this.
[3]
Ottoman era
In 1596 the village, under the name of Mazra'at al-'Abbas, appeared in the
Ottoman
tax registers as being in the
Nahiya of Quds of the
Liwa of
Quds . It had a population of 60 households and 21 bachelors, all Muslim. Taxes were paid on wheat, barley, olive trees, vineyards and fruit trees, goats and/or beehives; a total of 6,910
akçe . 1/3 of the revenue went to a
Waqf .
[4]
[5]
In 1838 el-Mezari'a was noted as a Muslim village, part of the Beni Zeid area, located north of Jerusalem.
[6]
When
Guérin passed by the village in 1870, he estimated it had a population of about 600.
[7] An Ottoman village list from about the same year showed Mazari with a population of 560, in 163 houses, though the population count included men only. It was also noted it was located east of
Qarawat Bani Zeid .
[8]
[9]
In 1882, the
PEF 's
Survey of Western Palestine described the village, then called Mezrah ,
[2] as being of moderate size, on high ground.
[10]
In 1896 the population of Mezra‘a was estimated to be about 1,008 persons.
[11]
British Mandate era
In the
1922 census of Palestine conducted by the
British Mandate authorities , Mazarie' al-Nubani had a population of 611 Muslims,
[12] increasing in the
1931 census to 864 Muslims, in 193 houses.
[13]
The
1945 statistics found 1,090 Muslim inhabitants
[14] with a total of 9,631 dunam of land.
[15] Of this, 7,399 were used for plantations and irrigable land, 445 for cereals,
[16] while 59 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 , Mazari Nubani came under
Jordanian rule .
In 1961, the population of Mazari al-Nubani was 1,358.
[18]
Post 1967
Since the
Six-Day War in 1967, Mazari al-Nuban has been under
Israeli occupation .
According to the
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of approximately 2,510 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.
[19]
Folklore
The local a-Nubani hamula claims to descend from
Abdul Qadir Gilani , a
Sufi leader who founded the
Qadiri order .
[20]
^
a
b
Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF) .
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report).
State of Palestine . February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24 .
^
a
b meaning "The sown land", according to Palmer, 1881, p.
239
^ Röhricht, 1887, p.
200 , Prawer and Benvenisti, 1970; both cited in Finkelstein, 1997, p. 464. Finkelstein found no old pottery here.
^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 114
^ Toledano, 1984, p. 296, has Mazari at location 35°09′35″E 32°03′00″N.
^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p.
125
^ Guérin, 1875, p.
170
^ Socin, 1879, p.
157
^ Hartmann, 1883, p.
107 , noted 103 houses
^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p.
291
^ Schick, 1896, p.
124
^ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramallah, p.
17
^ Mills, 1932, p.
50 .
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p.
26
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
65
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
112
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
162
^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p.
24
^
Projected Mid -Year Population for Ramallah & Al Bireh Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).
^ Tal, Uri (2023). Muslim Shrines in Eretz Israel: History, Religion, Traditions, Folklore (in Hebrew). Jerusalem:
Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi . p. 185.
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978-965-217-452-9 .
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