In 1596, it appeared in
Ottomantax registers as "ʽAmmuriya", a village in the nahiya of Jabal Qubal in the
Nablus Sanjak. It had a population of 7 households and 1 bachelor, all
Muslim. The villagers paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, and a press for olive oils or grapes; a total of 2,000
akçe.[7]
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the village formed part of the highland region known as Jūrat ‘Amra or Bilād Jammā‘īn. Situated between
Dayr Ghassāna in the south and the present
Route 5 in the north, and between
Majdal Yābā in the west and
Jammā‘īn,
Mardā and
Kifl Ḥāris in the east, this area served, according to historian
Roy Marom, "as a buffer zone between the political-economic-social units of the
Jerusalem and the
Nablus regions. On the political level, it suffered from instability due to the migration of the
Bedouin tribes and the constant competition among local clans for the right to collect taxes on behalf of the
Ottoman authorities."[8]
In 1838,
Edward Robinson noted it as a village in the Jurat Merda district, south of Nablus.[9][10]
In 1870/1871 (1288
AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Jamma'in al-Thani, subordinate to Nablus.[11]
In the
1945 statistics the population was 120, all Muslims,[15] with 3,112
dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[16] Of this, 1,753 dunams were used for cereals,[17] while 6 dunams were built-up land.[18]
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abFinkelstein, Israel; Lederman, Zvi; Bunimovitz, Shlomo (1997). Finkelstein, Israel; Lederman, Zvi (eds.). Highlands of Many Cultures. Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. p. 484.
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^Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
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^Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
105
^Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
155
^Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p.
26
^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. 357
Perlmann, Joel: The 1967 Census of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Digitized Version. Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. November 2011 – February 2012. [Digitized from: Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing, 1967 Conducted in the Areas Administered by the
IDF, Vols. 1–5 (1967–70), and Census of Population and Housing: East Jerusalem, Parts 1 and 2 (1968–70).]