Ti'inik

Ti'inik
Other transcription(s)
  Arabic تعّنك
Ti'inik

Location of Ti'inik within the Palestinian Territories

Coordinates: 32°31′11.01″N 35°13′15.81″E / 32.5197250°N 35.2210583°E / 32.5197250; 35.2210583Coordinates: 32°31′11.01″N 35°13′15.81″E / 32.5197250°N 35.2210583°E / 32.5197250; 35.2210583
Palestine grid 170/214
Governorate Jenin
Government
  Type Village council
Population (2006)
  Jurisdiction 1,095

Ti'inik (Arabic: تعّنك; Hebrew: טיעיניק), also transliterated Ta'anakh, Ti’innik or Taanach, is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 13 km Northwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. The neighbouring Israeli region of Ta'anakh is named after the town.

According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 1,095 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.[1]

Archaeology

Cultic terracotta found at Tel Taanach, now in the Istanbul Archaeology Museums

Just to the east is a 40-metre-high mound which was the site of the biblical city Taanach. Twelve Akkadian cuneiform tablets were found here. Approximately one third of the names on these tablets are of Hurrian origin, indicating a significant northern ethnic presence.[2][3] The main remains visible today are of an 11th-century Abbasid palace.[4]

Bibliography

Footnotes

  1. Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  2. Gustavs, A. (1927) Die Personennamen in den Tontafeln von Tell Ta-annek. ZDPV 50, 1-18.
  3. Glock, A.E. (1971) A New Ta-annek Tablet. BASOR 204, 17-30.
  4. Dave Winter Israel handbook: with the Palestinian Authority areas p644

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