Rummanah
| Rummanah | |
|---|---|
| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | رمّانه |
| • Also spelled |
Rummaneh (official) Rumana (unofficial) |
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Rummanah | |
  Rummanah Location of Rummanah within the Palestinian Territories | |
| Coordinates: 32°31′26″N 35°12′18″E / 32.52389°N 35.20500°ECoordinates: 32°31′26″N 35°12′18″E / 32.52389°N 35.20500°E | |
| Palestine grid | 169/214 |
| Governorate | Jenin |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 3,372 |
| Name meaning | "Pomegranates" (Rimmon)[1] |
Rummanah (Arabic: رمّانه) is a Palestinian village located 17 kilometers (11 mi) northwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 3,372 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.[2]
History
The SWP found cisterns cut in the rock and a well.[3] Dauphin described the place as being an ancient village on a hill slope, with traces of ancient remains, including cisterns and caves carved into rock.[4]
Ottoman era
Rumana, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village was located in the nahiya of Sara in the liwa of Lajjun. It had a population of 12 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid taxes on wheat, barley, summercrops, olive trees, occasional revenues, goats and beehives.[5]
The Dutch lieutenant van der Velde travelled in the area in 1851-2. He noted that Scottish missionaries in 1839 had found many old wells and other old remains in the area. He also described the village (called Rumuni) as being small, and identified it with ancient Hadad-Rimon (see Zacahriah xii, 11).[6] French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village in 1863, and described it as being reduced to "twenty miserable dwellings". He did not notice any traces of antiquity, except for a few cisterns in the rock and a working well. Guérin agreed that the village was Hadad-Rimon, but disagreed with Jeromes assertion that Hadad-Rimon was identical with Maximianopolis.[7]
In the 1882 "Survey of Western Palestine", the village (called Rummaneh) was described as:
A small village of mud and stone, near the foot of the hills, with wells to the west and olives below. This village seems to mark the site of Maximianopolis, a town 20 Roman miles from Caesarea and 10 miles from Jezreel (Zer'in), the ancient name of Maximianopolis being, according to Jerome, "Hadad Rimmon".[8]
British Mandate era
In a census conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, Rumaneh had a population of 548, all Muslim,[9] increasing in the 1931 census to 644, still all Muslim, in 151 houses.[10]
In 1945 the population of Rummana (including Khirbat Salim) was 880 while the total land area was 21,676 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[11][12] Of this, 2,876 dunams were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 10,507 for cereals,[13] while 27 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[14]
1948-1967
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Rummanah came under Jordanian rule.
post-1967
After the Six-Day War in 1967, Rummanah has been under Israeli occupation.
Footnotes
- ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 152
- ↑ Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
- ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 68
- ↑ Dauphin, 1998, p. 743
- ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 159
- ↑ van der Velde, 1854, p. 355
- ↑ Guérin, 1875, p. 228 ff
- ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 45
- ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 30
- ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 70
- ↑ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 55
- ↑ 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
Bibliography
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- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. ISBN 0-860549-05-4.
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- Guérin, Victor (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
- Hadawi, Sami (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 (PDF). 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.
- Velde, van de, Charles William Meredith (1854). Narrative of a journey through Syria and Palestine in 1851 and 1852 1. William Blackwood and son.
External links
- Welcome To Rummana
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: IAA, Wikimedia commons
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