Jalamah

This article is about the village in Jenin Governorate, Palestine. For other places with a similar name, see Al-Jalama. For the middle eastern dish, see Jalamah (food).
Jalamah
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicجلمه
 • Latinal-Jalama (official)
Jalamah is located in State of Palestine
Jalamah
Jalamah
Location of Jalamah within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°30′31″N 35°18′48″E / 32.50861°N 35.31333°E / 32.50861; 35.31333
Palestine grid179/212
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateJenin
Government
 • TypeVillage council
Population
 (2017)
 • Total
2,268[1]
Name meaningthe hill[2]

Jalamah (Arabic: جلمه) or Jalameh is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 5 km north of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,304 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 2,268 in 2017.[1][3]

History

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It has been suggested that this was Jiliimna in the list of places conquered by Thutmose III.[4]

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[5]

Ottoman era

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Jalamah, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. During the 16th and 17th centuries, Jalama 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.[6][7]

In the census of 1596, Jalama appeared as Jalama, located in the nahiya of Sara in the liwa of Lajjun. It had a population of 16 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 8,000 akçe.[8]

In 1838, it was noted as a village in the Jenin district.[9][10]

In 1870, Victor Guérin noted the village on a hill, which sides had cisterns carved into rock and silos. He estimated the village to have 200 inhabitants, and also noted a kubbeh for a local saint.[11]

In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Shafa al-Qibly.[12]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Jelameh as: "Resembles Jabbul. It stands in the plain, surrounded with arable land, and is supplied by cisterns. It has a kubbeh on the north side."[13]

British Mandate era

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In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jalameh had a population of 261; 253 Muslims and 8 Christians,[14] where the Christians were all Orthodox.[15] The population increased in the 1931 census to 304; 300 Muslims and 4 Christians, in a total of 68 houses.[16]

In the 1944/5 statistics the population of Jalama was 460, all Muslims,[17] with 5,827 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[18] Of this, 86 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 4,777 for cereals,[19] while 15 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[20]

Jordanian era

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

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 784 inhabitants here.[21]

Post-1967

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Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Jalamah has been under Israeli occupation.

On 14 September 2022, 2 Palestinians and 1 Israeli soldier were killed in a shootout at an Israeli military checkpoint on the border with the West Bank.[22]

See also

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ a b Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report). State of Palestine. February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  2. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 161
  3. ^ Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Archived 2008-09-20 at the Wayback Machine Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  4. ^ Conder, 1876, p. 147
  5. ^ Dauphin, 1988, p. 744
  6. ^ al-Bakhīt, Muḥammad ʻAdnān; al-Ḥamūd, Nūfān Rajā (1989). "Daftar mufaṣṣal nāḥiyat Marj Banī ʻĀmir wa-tawābiʻihā wa-lawāḥiqihā allatī kānat fī taṣarruf al-Amīr Ṭarah Bāy sanat 945 ah". www.worldcat.org. Amman: Jordanian University. pp. 1–35. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
  7. ^ Marom, Roy; Marom, Tepper; Adams, Matthew, J. "Lajjun: Forgotten Provincial Capital in Ottoman Palestine". Levant. doi:10.1080/00758914.2023.2202484.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 161
  9. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd app. p. 130
  10. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp. 161,167
  11. ^ Guérin, 1874, pp. 326 - 327
  12. ^ Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 256.
  13. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 84
  14. ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
  15. ^ Barron, 1923, Table XV, p. 47
  16. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 68
  17. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 Archived 2018-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
  18. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54
  19. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98
  20. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 148
  21. ^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25
  22. ^ "Two Palestinians, one Israeli soldier killed in Jenin shoot-out". Al Jazeera. 14 September 2022.

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