Muqeible

Muqeible
مقيبلة
Muqeible
Coordinates: 32°30′51″N 35°17′41″E / 32.51417°N 35.29472°E / 32.51417; 35.29472Coordinates: 32°30′51″N 35°17′41″E / 32.51417°N 35.29472°E / 32.51417; 35.29472
Grid position 177/213 PAL
Council Gilboa Regional Council
Population (2014)[1] 3,581

Muqeible or Muqeibla (Arabic: مقيبلة‎, Hebrew: מֻקֵיבִּלָה), meaning "The front place",[2] is an Arab town in Israel's North District, situated in the Jezreel Valley between Jenin in the West Bank and the Ta'anakh area. It is a part of the Gilboa Regional Council.In 2014 its population was 3,581. The inhabitants are Muslims and Christians.

History

Muqeible, named Meqbeleh on the map by Pierre Jacotin from 1799

During the Roman-era, a town called "Muqeibleh" stood at the site. Byzantine-era settlement is attested to archaeologically by a well and pottery workshops from that period near the present village.[3]

Ottoman era

According to a local inhabitant, the villagers moved here from the al-Haram-Sidna Ali-area in the latter part of the Ottoman period.[3] Victor Guérin, who visited in 1870, noted that the village contained 400 inhabitants and had a number of cisterns.[4] In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described Muqeible as "a mud village in the plain, supplied by cisterns."[5]

British Mandate era

In the census conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, Muquibleh had a population of 201; 181 Muslims and 20 Christians,[6] increasing in the 1931 census to 270; 244 Muslims and 26 Christians, in a total of 67 houses.[7]

By 1945 Muqeible had 460 inhabitants, all classified as Arabs. They owned a total of 2,687 dunams of land, while 4,441 dunams were public, a total of 7,128.[8] Of this, 174 dunams were used for plantations or irrigable land, 6,421 for cereals,[9] while 22 dunams were built-up land.[10]

1948, aftermath

After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Muqeible has been part of the State of Israel.

In 1994, Andrew Petersen, an archaeologist specializing in Islamic architecture, examined the "Hawsh"; a large, square courtyard building, resembling a khan, in the center of the village. The central courtyard of the "Hawsh" measures approximately 30m per side. On the east side there is a small gateway, leading into a tall iwan. Petersen noted that the masonry suggested that it was built either in late Ottoman or early Mandate Period.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ 2014 populations Israel Central Bureau of Statistics
  2. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p.151
  3. 1 2 3 Petersen, 2001, p. 223
  4. ↑ Guérin, 1874, p. 327. Also cited in Petersen, 2001, p. 223
  5. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 45, also cited in Petersen, 2001, p. 223
  6. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
  7. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 69
  8. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 55
  9. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 99
  10. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 149

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