Talfit

This article is about the village in the Nablus Governorate. For the village in the Jenin Governorate, see Telfit.
Talfit
Other transcription(s)
  Arabic تلفيت
Talfit

Location of Talfit within the Palestinian Territories

Coordinates: 32°05′19″N 35°17′29″E / 32.08861°N 35.29139°E / 32.08861; 35.29139Coordinates: 32°05′19″N 35°17′29″E / 32.08861°N 35.29139°E / 32.08861; 35.29139
Palestine grid 177/165
Governorate Nablus
Government
  Type Village council
  Head of Municipality Raed Ershed
Population (2007)
  Jurisdiction 2,824

Talfit (Arabic: تلفيت)[1] is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank, located 21 kilometers southeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, it had a population of 2,824 in 2007.[2]

History

Potsherds from the IA II, Persian, Byzantine/Ayyubid, Mamluk and early Ottoman period have been found.[3] Röhricht suggested identifying Talfit with Tarphin, mentioned in a Crusader text from 1154,[4] but a later author (Abel) preferred to locate it at Kh. Tarfein to the north of Bir Zeit.[5] According to Finkelstein, Kh. Tarfein better fits the archaeological finds.[3]

Ottoman era

In 1596, Talfit appeared in Ottoman tax registers as a village in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal in the Liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 12 Muslim households and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summercrops, olives, and goats or beehives.[6]

The Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine noted in 1882 that the place resembled Kabalan, described as a village of moderate size, on high ground, surrounded by olive-trees. Talfit was supplied with water from a well called Ain Telfit.[7]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Talfit had a population of 352, all Muslims,[8] increasing in the 1931 census to 464, still all Muslim, in 116 occupied houses.[9]

In 1945 Telfit had a population of 610, all Muslims,[10] with 6,258 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[11] Of this, 3,309 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,228 used for cereals,[12] while 49 dunams were built-up land.[13]

1948-1967

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Talfit came under Jordanian rule.

1967-present

After the Six-Day War in 1967, Talfit has been under Israeli occupation

References

  1. Palmer, 1881 p. 245
  2. 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p. 110.
  3. 1 2 Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 655
  4. Röhricht, 1887, p. 213
  5. Abel, 1928:52, cited in Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 655
  6. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 133
  7. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 288
  8. Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 25
  9. Mills, 1932, p. 65
  10. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 19
  11. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 61
  12. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 108
  13. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 158

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