Tell | |
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Arabic transcription(s) | |
• Arabic | تلّ |
• Latin | Tel (official) Tall (unofficial) |
Location of Tell within
Palestine | |
Coordinates: 32°12′03″N 35°12′47″E / 32.20083°N 35.21306°E | |
Palestine grid | 170/178 |
State | State of Palestine |
Governorate | Nablus |
Government | |
• Type | Village council |
• Head of Municipality | Omar Abdel Latif Eshtaia |
Area | |
• Total | 13,776 dunams (13.8 km2 or 5.3 sq mi) |
Population (2017)
[1] | |
• Total | 5,162 |
• Density | 370/km2 (970/sq mi) |
Name meaning | "Mound" [2] |
Tell ( Arabic: تلّ), pronounced Till, is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located five kilometers southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 5,162 inhabitants in 2017. [1] Most of the town's laborers work in agriculture, with figs and olives being the major source of income. [3]
Mohammad Shtayyeh, a Palestinian economist and politician, was born in Tell.
Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here. [4]
In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and it appeared in the 1596 tax-records as Till, located in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal of the Liwa of Nablus. The population was 46 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues, a press for olive oil or grape syrup, and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 5,100 akçe. [5]
In 1838, Till was located in the District of Jurat 'Amra, south of Nablus. [6]
In 1863, Victor Guérin found it to have a population of one thousand inhabitants. It was divided into several districts, each administered by a different sheikh. He further noted: "Some houses are large and fairly well built. Around the village grow, in pens, beautiful plantations of fig and pomegranate trees." [7]
In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Jamma'in al-Thani, subordinate to Nablus. [8]
In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Till as: "A village of moderate size on low ground, with a high mound behind it on the south; it has a well and a few trees, and on the west a pool in winter; the hills to the north are bare and white, but terraced to the very top." [9]
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Tel had a population of 567 Muslims, [10] increasing in the 1931 census to 803 Muslims, in 209 houses. [11]
In the 1945 statistics the population was 1,060 Muslims, [12] while the total land area was 13,766 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. [13] Of this, 1,056 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 7,023 for cereals, [14] while 55 dunams were classified as built-up areas. [15]
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Tell came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,539 inhabitants. [16]
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Tell has been held under Israeli military occupation.