Al-Mughayyir, Jenin

Not to be confused with another Palestinian village Al-Mughayyir, Ramallah, located near Ramallah.

Not to be confused with Tell el-Muqayyar, the extant location of Ur.

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al-Mughayyir
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
•  Arabic	المُغير
al-Mughayyir Location of al-Mughayyir within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°25′18″N35°23′06″E / 32.42167°N 35.38500°E / 32.42167; 35.38500
Palestine grid	186/204
State	State of Palestine
Governorate	Jenin
Government
• Type	Village council
Population  (2017) [1]
• Total	3,249
Name meaning	The caves [2]

al-Mughayyir (Arabic : المُغير) is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 12 km Southeast of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 2,240 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 3,249 by 2017. ^{[1] [3]}

History

Al-Mughayyir was established by shepehrds from Deir Jarir and from Marj Ibn Amer, probably around the mid-19th century, around an old ruin. ^[4]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described the village as "a small place on a rocky hill top. The water supply is by means of rain water cisterns. The houses are of stone and mud." ^[5]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Mughair had a population 94 Muslims, ^[6] increasing in the 1931 census to 156 Muslim, in a total of 31 houses. ^[7]

In the 1945 statistics the population was 220 Muslims, ^[8] with a total of 18,049 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. ^[9] Of this, 711 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 5,487 dunams were for cereals, ^[10] while a total of 6 dunams were built-up, urban land. ^[11]

Jordanian era

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

In 1961, the population was 390. ^[12]

Post-1967

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

References

1. 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. 165
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. Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 349-350
5. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 82
6. Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
7. Mills, 1932, p. 69
8. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 Archived 2018-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
9. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 55
10. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 99
11. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 149
12. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25

Bibliography

• Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
• Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
• Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics (1964). First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population (PDF).
• Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
• Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center. Archived from the original on 2018-12-08. Retrieved 2014-09-10.
• Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. 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.

External links

• Welcome To al-Mughaiyir
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 9: IAA, Wikimedia commons