Arranah

’Arrana (Arabic: عرّانه‎) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate, located 4 kilometers Northeast of Jenin, in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 2,144 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.[2]

’Arrana
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicعرّانه
’Arrana
Location of ’Arrana within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°29′50″N 35°19′20″E
Palestine grid180/211
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateJenin
Government
 • TypeVillage council
Population
 (2006)
 • Total2,144
Name meaningfrom personal name, or perhaps from the Arab form of “a hyæna’s den” [1]

History

It has been suggested that this was Aaruna in the list of places conquered by Thutmose III.[3]

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[4]

Ottoman era

Arranah, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village appeared as 'Arrana, located in the nahiya of Sara in the liwa of Lajjun. It had a population of 17 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 9,000 akçe.[5]

In 1838, it was noted as a village in the Jenin district.[6][7]

In 1870, Victor Guérin noted it on a small hilltop.[8]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Arraneh as: "A small village, principally of mud, with a few stone houses, standing in the plain, surrounded by olive-yards. It is supplied with water from cisterns. A kubbeh exists about 1/4 mile north of the village."[3]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village had a population of 216 Muslims,[9] increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 267 Muslims, in 46 households.[10]

In 1944/5 statistics the population was 320, all Muslim,[11] with a total of 7,866 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[12] Of this, 13 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 6,460 dunams for cereals,[13] while 10 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[14]

Jordanian era

After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Arranah came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 539 inhabitants.[15]

Post-1967

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

Footnotes
  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 159
  2. Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  3. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, pp. 82-83
  4. Dauphin, 1998, p. 783
  5. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 161
  6. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2 appendix, p. 130
  7. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp. 157, 160
  8. Guérin, 1874, p. 337
  9. Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
  10. Mills, 1932, p. 67
  11. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 Archived 2018-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
  12. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54
  13. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98
  14. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 148
  15. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25

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