Umm al-Tut | |
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Arabic transcription(s) | |
• Arabic | ام التوت |
Location of Umm al-Tut within
Palestine | |
Coordinates: 32°25′56″N 35°20′40″E / 32.43222°N 35.34444°E | |
Palestine grid | 182/204 |
State | State of Palestine |
Governorate | Jenin |
Government | |
• Type | Village council |
Population (2017)
[1] | |
• Total | 1,194 |
Name meaning | "The place with the mulberries"
[2] "The mother of all strawberries" [3] |
Umm al-Tut ( Arabic: ام التوت, romanized: ām āltwt, literally "mum-berries") is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 6 km southeast of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 1,003 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 1,194 by 2017. [1] [4]
In 1517 Umm al-Tut was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine. During the 16th and 17th centuries, it belonged to the Turabay Emirate (1517-1683), which encompassed also the Jezreel Valley, Haifa, Jenin, Beit She'an Valley, northern Jabal Nablus, Bilad al-Ruha/Ramot Menashe, and the northern part of the Sharon plain. [5] [6] Its original residents reportedly came from the areas of Nablus and Ramallah. [7]
In 1870, Umm al-Tut, called Oumm et-Toutah, situated south of Deir Abu Da'if, was one of the villages Victor Guérin noted from Faqqua. [8]
In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described the village as resembling El Mughair, and that it stood "amongst dense thickets on the north and west, and has open plough-land on the south." [9]
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Umm al-Tut had a population 94 Muslims, [10] increasing in the 1931 census to 129 Muslims, in a total of 24 houses. [11]
In 1945 statistics the population was 170 Muslims, [12] with 4,876 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. [13] Of this, 132 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,705 dunams were for cereals, [14] while a total of 6 dunams were built-up, urban land. [15]
Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and the subsequent 1949 Armistice Agreements, Umm al-Tut came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 266 inhabitants in Um Tut. [16]
Since the 1967 Six-Day War Umm al-Tut has been under Israeli occupation.
The village is a major center of natural resources, nearby villages use 10% of Umm al-Tut's abundant surplus of fuel wood and also rely on Umm al-Tut's many pastures to raise their livestock. [17] Because of this, Umm al-Tut is under notably ample pressure due to increases in illegal/unauthorized grazing, logging, hunting, and waste disposal, as well as unlawful seizures of property by neighboring villages to convert into agricultural stock. [17]
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