Kafr Dan

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Kafr Dan
Municipality type C
Arabic transcription(s)
 •  Arabic كفر دان
 •  Latin (official)Kufr Dan
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Kafr Dan
Location of Kafr Dan within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°28′43″N35°15′15″E / 32.47861°N 35.25417°E / 32.47861; 35.25417
Palestine grid 174/209
State State of Palestine
Governorate Jenin
Government
 • Type Municipality
Population
 (2017) [1]
 • Total
6,591
Name meaning"the village of adhan (call to prayer)" [2]

Kafr Dan (Arabic : كفر ذان) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate, located 8 km northwest of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, the town had a population of 5,148 in 2007 and 6,591 in 2017. [1] [3]

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Location

Kafr Dan is located north-west of Jenin; just east of Al-Yamun and north of Burqin.

History

Pottery remains from the Roman, Byzantine, Early Islamic periods and the Middle Ages have been found here. [4]

Palmer suggested to identify Kafr Dan with Capher Outheni (Hebrew : כפר עותני), a village mentioned in the Talmud. [2]

Ottoman era

Kafr Dan, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. During the 16th and 17th centuries, it 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. [5] [6]

In the census of 1596, Kafr Dan appeared as "Kafradan”, located in the nahiya of Sha'ara in the liwa of Lajjun. It had a population of 9 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 6,000 akçe. [7] Pottery remains from the Ottoman era have also been found here. [4]

In 1838 Edward Robinson, calling it Kefr Adan, noted it among many other villages on the plain; Lajjun, Umm al-Fahm, Ti'inik, Silat al-Harithiya, Al-Yamun and el Barid, [8] located in the District of Jenin, also called Haritheh esh-Shemaliyeh. [9]

In 1870 Victor Guérin found at Kafr Dan “a broken column and a certain number of cut stones of ancient appearance.” [10] Guérin estimated that the village had 300 inhabitants. [11] In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya of Shafa al-Gharby. [12]

In 1882 the PEF’s Survey of Western Palestine described the area as a "village of moderate size on the slope of the hills, built of stone, with olives below, and a well on the west.” They called the village “Kefr Adan”. [13]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kufr Dan had a population of 486; all Muslims, [14] increasing in the 1931 census to 603, still all Muslim, in a total of 135 houses. [15]

In the 1945 statistics, the population was 850, all Muslims, [16] with 7,328 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. [17] 5 dunams were used for citrus and bananas, 2,680 for plantations and irrigable land, 3,799 for cereals, [18] while 34 dunams were built-up (urban) land. [19]

Jordanian era

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

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,262 inhabitants. [20]

Post 1967

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

In 2009, Kafr Dan Village Council was upgraded into a municipality. The mayor, Bilal Mer'i, joined with Prime Minister Rami Hamdullah for the ceremony. [21]

References

  1. 1 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.
  2. 1 2 Palmer, 1881, p. 147
  3. ↑ 2007 Locality Population Statistics Archived 2010-12-10 at the Wayback Machine . Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). p. 105.
  4. 1 2 Zertal, 2016, pp. 213-214
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ 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)
  7. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 159
  8. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 161
  9. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd Appendix, p. 130
  10. ↑ Guerin, 1875, p. 225, as given by Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 54
  11. ↑ Guerin, 1875, p. 225
  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. 45
  14. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 30
  15. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 67
  16. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 Archived 2018-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54
  18. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 99
  19. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 149
  20. ↑ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25
  21. ↑ "l Koni: We seek to achieve roles integration between local government units and both public and private sectors". 2009. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.

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