Municipality type D in Jenin, State of Palestine
Araqah (
Arabic : عرقه ) is a
Palestinian village in the
Jenin Governorate in the Northern area of the
West Bank , located 15 kilometers West of
Jenin . According to the
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics , the village had a population of 2,667 inhabitants in 2017.
[2]
History
Araqah was established in the 18th century, probably by the Abd el-Hadi family or under their auscipes.
[3]
Potsherds from the late
Roman ,
[4]
Byzantine ,
[4]
[5] early
Muslim and the Middle Ages have been found here.
[4]
Ottoman era
Pottery remains from the early
Ottoman era have also been found here.
[4]
In 1870,
Victor Guérin described it as a small village, situated on a small hill, and divided into two quarters.
[6] In 1870/1871 (1288
AH ), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya of Shafa al-Gharby.
[7]
In 1882 the
PEF 's
Survey of Western Palestine found that it was "a village of moderated size on a hill side, with a
well to the south."
[8]
British Mandate era
In the
1922 census of Palestine , conducted by the
British Mandate authorities , the village had a population of 168 Muslims,
[9] increasing slightly in the
1931 census to 219 Muslims, with 36 houses.
[10]
In
1944/5 statistics the population was 350 Muslims,
[11] with a total of 5,675
dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.
[12] Of this, 462 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,191 dunams for cereals,
[13] while 27 dunams were built-up (urban) land.
[14]
Jordanian era
After the
1948 Arab-Israeli War , Araqah came under
Jordanian rule .
The
Jordanian census of 1961 found 569 inhabitants.
[15]
Post-1967
Araqah has been under
Israeli occupation along with the rest of the West Bank since the 1967
Six-Day War .
On 27 April 2015 an eighteen-year-old youth from the village died after being shot the previous day by Israeli soldiers.
[16]
Demography
Local origins
Some of Araqah's residents have origins in the
Bayt Jibrin area, while others have origins in
Transjordan .
[3]
See also
References
^ Palmer, 1881, p.
144
^
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (February 2018).
"Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census 2017" (PDF) . p. 64. Retrieved May 19, 2023 .
^
a
b 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. 345
^
a
b
c
d Zertal, 2016, p.
215
^ Dauphin, 1998, p. 750
^ Guérin, 1874, p.
224
^ Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine . Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 256.
^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p.
44
^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p.
30
^ Mills, 1932, p.
67
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p.
16
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Wayback Machine
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
54
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
98
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
148
^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p.
25
^
Palestinian Man Shot in West Bank Dies of Wounds Ha'aretz 27/4/2015
Bibliography
Barron, J.B., ed. (1923).
Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 . Government of Palestine.
Conder, C.R. ;
Kitchener, H.H. (1882).
The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology . Vol. 2. London:
Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund .
Dauphin, C. (1998).
La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations . BAR International Series 726 (in French). Vol. III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress.
ISBN
0-860549-05-4 .
Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics (1964).
First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population (PDF) .
Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945).
Village Statistics, April, 1945 .
Guérin, V. (1875).
Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
Hadawi, S. (1970).
Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine . Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
Mills, E., ed. (1932).
Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas . Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
Palmer, E.H. (1881).
The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer .
Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund .
Zertal, A. (2016).
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ISBN
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