Municipality type D in Jenin, State of Palestine
Mirka (
Arabic : مِركة ) is a
Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 12 km (7.5 mi) Southwest of the city of
Jenin in the northern
West Bank . According to the
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics , the town had a population of 1,555 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 2,203 by 2017.
[1]
[3]
History
Just southeast of the village (at grid 172/199) is a site where
sherds mainly from the
Persian era have been found.
[4]
Pottery
sherds from the early and late
Roman ,
Byzantine , early
Muslim and Medieval eras have been found at the village site.
[5]
Locals say they have origins in
Arraba .
[6]
Ottoman era
Mirka, like all of
Palestine , was incorporated into the
Ottoman Empire in 1517. In the 1596
tax registers , it was part of the
nahiya ("subdistrict") of Jabal Sami , part of the larger
Sanjak of Nablus . It had a population of 9 households, all
Muslims . The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, a press for olive oil or grape syrup, in addition to occasional revenues and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 3,780
akçe .
[7]
In the 1882
PEF 's
Survey of Western Palestine (SWP), Merkeh is described as: "a
hamlet on the side of a bare hill."
[8]
British Mandate era
In the
1922 census of Palestine conducted by the
British Mandate authorities , Merka had a population 142
Muslims ,
[9] increasing in the
1931 census to 167 Muslim, in a total of 32 houses.
[10]
In the
1945 statistics , the population was 230 Muslims,
[11] with a total of 4,396
dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.
[12] Of this, 546 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,300 dunams were for cereals,
[13] while a total of 26 dunams were built-up, urban land.
[14]
Jordanian era
In the wake of the
1948 Arab–Israeli War , and after the
1949 Armistice Agreements , Mirka came under
Jordanian rule.
In 1961, the population was 303.
[15]
Post-1967
Since the
Six-Day War in 1967, Mirka has been under
Israeli occupation , and according to the Israeli census of that year, the population of Mirka stood at 142, of whom 59 were registered as having come from Israel.
[16]
References
^
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 .
^ Palmer, 1881, p.
188
^
Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004– 2006
Archived 2008-09-20 at the
Wayback Machine
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
^ Zertal, 2004, pp.
189 -190
^ Zertal, 2004, pp.
186 -187
^ 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
^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 128
^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p.
156
^ Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Jenin, p.
29
^ Mills, 1932, p.
69
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p.
16
Archived 2018-09-05 at the
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.
99
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.
149
^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p.
25
^ Perlmann, Joel (November 2011 – February 2012).
"The 1967 Census of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Digitized Version" (PDF) .
Levy Economics Institute . Retrieved 29 January 2018 .
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 .
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 .
Hadawi, S. (1970).
Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine . Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977).
Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century . Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft.
ISBN
3-920405-41-2 .
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. (2004).
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ISBN
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