Rummanah

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Rummanah
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   Arabic رمّانه
   Latin Rummaneh (official)
Rumana (unofficial)
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Rummanah
Location of Rummanah within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°31′26″N35°12′18″E / 32.52389°N 35.20500°E / 32.52389; 35.20500
Palestine grid 169/214
StateFlag of Palestine.svg  State of Palestine
Governorate Jenin
Government
  Type Village council
Population
 (2017)
  Total3,637 [1]
Name meaning"Pomegranates" (Rimmon) [2]

Rummanah (Arabic : رمّانه) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate of Palestine, located 17 kilometers (11 mi) northwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 3,372 inhabitants in mid-year 2006. [3]

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History

The SWP found cisterns cut in the rock and a well. [4] Dauphin described the place as being an ancient village on a hill slope, with traces of ancient remains, including cisterns and caves carved into rock. [5]

Ottoman period

Rumana, 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. [6] [7]

In the census of 1596, the village was located in the nahiya of Sara in the liwa of Lajjun. It had a population of 12 households, all Muslim. The villagers 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 9,000 akçe. [8]

The Dutch lieutenant van der Velde travelled in the area in 1851–2. He noted that Scottish missionaries in 1839 had found many old wells and other old remains in the area. He also described the village (called Rumuni) as being small, and identified it with ancient Hadad-rimmon (see Zechariah 12:11). [9] French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village in 1863 and 1870, and described it as being reduced to "twenty miserable dwellings". He did not notice any traces of antiquity, except for a few cisterns in the rock and a working well. Guérin agreed that the village was Hadad-Rimon, but disagreed with Jeromes assertion that Hadad-Rimon was identical with Maximianopolis. [10]

In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya of Shafa al-Gharby. [11]


In the 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP), the village (called Rummaneh) was described as:

A small village of mud and stone, near the foot of the hills, with wells to the west and olives below. This village seems to mark the site of Maximianopolis, a town 20 Roman miles from Caesarea and 10 miles from Jezreel (Zer'in), the ancient name of Maximianopolis being, according to Jerome, "Hadad Rimmon". [12]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Rumaneh had a population of 548, all Muslim, [13] increasing in the 1931 census to 644, still all Muslim, in 151 houses. [14]

In the 1945 statistics, the population of Rummana (including Khirbat Salim) was 880 Muslims [15] while the total land area was 21,676 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. [16] Of this, 2,876 dunams were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 10,507 for cereals, [17] while 27 dunams were classified as built-up areas. [18]

Jordanian era

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

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,214 inhabitants. [19]

post-1967

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

Demography

Local origins

Some inhabitants of Rummanah originated from Ya'bad, Kafr Ra'i, and Deir al-Ghusun, while others migrated from Egypt, and some residents are Bedouins from the Mount Tabor area. [20]

Footnotes

  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. 152
  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 and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 68
  5. Dauphin, 1998, p. 743
  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; Tepper, Yotam; Adams, Matthew. "Lajjun: Forgotten Provincial Capital in Ottoman Palestine". Levant: 1–24. doi:10.1080/00758914.2023.2202484.
  8. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 159
  9. van der Velde, 1854, p. 355
  10. Guérin, 1875, p. 228 ff
  11. Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 256.
  12. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 45
  13. Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 30
  14. Mills, 1932, p. 70
  15. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16
  16. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 55
  17. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 99
  18. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 149
  19. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25
  20. 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

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