Ammuriya, Nablus

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Ammuriya
Local Development Committee
Arabic transcription(s)
•  Arabic	عمورية
•  Latin	ʽAmuria (official) ʽAmuriya (unofficial)
Jilijliya to the right, ʽAmmuriya to the left.
Ammuriya Location of ʽAmmuriya within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°3′51″N35°12′41″E / 32.06417°N 35.21139°E / 32.06417; 35.21139
Palestine grid	169/163
State	State of Palestine
Governorate	Nablus
Government
• Type	Local Development Committee
• Head of Municipality	Sulaiman Hakawati [1]
Population  (2017) [2]
• Total	371

Ammuriya (Arabic : عمورية, romanized: ʿAmmūriya, also spelled Amuria) ^[3] is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine in the northern West Bank, located south of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, Ammuriya had a population of 371 in 2017. ^[2] There were 48 households and five business establishments in the village. ^[4]

In 2012, Ammuriya was joined with al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya into a single municipality called after the latter town. ^[5]

Location

Nearby localities include Iskaka to the north, al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya to the east, Abwein to the south, Arura and Mazari an-Nubani to the southwest and Salfit to the northwest.

History

Pottery sherds from Iron Age II, Hellenistic/Roman, Crusader/Ayyubid and Mamluk eras have been found here. A burial cave dating back to the Roman period was found here. ^[6]

Ottoman era

In 1596, it appeared in Ottoman tax registers as "ʽAmmuriya", a village in the nahiya of Jabal Qubal in the Nablus Sanjak. It had a population of 7 households and 1 bachelor, all Muslim. The villagers paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, and a press for olive oils or grapes; a total of 2,000 akçe. ^[7]

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the village formed part of the highland region known as Jūrat ‘Amra or Bilād Jammā‘īn. Situated between Dayr Ghassāna in the south and the present Route 5 in the north, and between Majdal Yābā in the west and Jammā‘īn, Mardā and Kifl Ḥāris in the east, this area served, according to historian Roy Marom, "as a buffer zone between the political-economic-social units of the Jerusalem and the Nablus regions. On the political level, it suffered from instability due to the migration of the Bedouin tribes and the constant competition among local clans for the right to collect taxes on behalf of the Ottoman authorities." ^[8]

In 1838, Edward Robinson noted it as a village in the Jurat Merda district, south of Nablus. ^{[9] [10]}

In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Jamma'in al-Thani, subordinate to Nablus. ^[11]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as "A small village on high ground". ^[12]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the population was 69, all Muslim, ^{[1] [13]} increasing in the 1931 census 85 Muslims in 19 houses. ^[14]

In the 1945 statistics the population was 120, all Muslims, ^[15] with 3,112 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. ^[16] Of this, 1,753 dunams were used for cereals, ^[17] while 6 dunams were built-up land. ^[18]

Jordanian era

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

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 157 inhabitants. ^[19]

1967, and aftermath

In 1967 the village came under Israeli occupation after the Six-Day War, and the same year the population was found to be 130. ^[20]

In 1997, it was described as "a very small village surrounded by orchards". ^[6]

In 2012, Ammuriya was joined with al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya in a single municipality called after the latter town. ^[5]

Demography

The people of Ammuriya have their origins in the area of Jerusalem. ^[21]

References

1. Ammuriya Profile. Jerusalem Media and Communications Center (JMCC). 2007-02-09.
2. 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.
3. From Amorites, according to Palmer, 1881, p. 225
4. 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p. 110.
5. Al Lubban ash Sharqiya Village Profile (including ‘Ammuriya Locality), ARIJ, p. 5
6. Finkelstein, Israel; Lederman, Zvi; Bunimovitz, Shlomo (1997). Finkelstein, Israel; Lederman, Zvi (eds.). Highlands of Many Cultures. Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. p. 484. ISBN   965-440-007-3.
7. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 136
8. Marom, Roy (2022-11-01). "Jindās: A History of Lydda's Rural Hinterland in the 15th to the 20th Centuries CE". Lod, Lydda, Diospolis. 1: 17.
9. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 82,
10. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 127
11. Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 253.
12. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 283
13. Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 25
14. Mills, 1932, p. 59
15. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 18
16. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 59 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
17. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 105
18. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 155
19. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 26
20. Perlmann, Joel (November 2011 – February 2012). "The 1967 Census of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Digitized Version" (PDF). Levy Economics Institute . Retrieved 24 June 2016.
21. 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. 357

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.
• Finkelstein, I.; Lederman, Zvi, eds. (1997). Highlands of many cultures. Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. ISBN   965-440-007-3.
• 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 2012-07-17.
• Hütteroth, W.-D.; Abdulfattah, K. (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. 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.
• Perlmann, Joel: The 1967 Census of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Digitized Version . Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. November 2011 – February 2012. [Digitized from: Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing, 1967 Conducted in the Areas Administered by the IDF , Vols. 1–5 (1967–70), and Census of Population and Housing: East Jerusalem, Parts 1 and 2 (1968–70).]
• Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.

External links

• Welcome To 'Ammuriya
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Al Lubban ash Sharqiya Village Profile (including ‘Ammuriya Locality), Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ)
• ‘Ammuriya aerial photo, ARIJ