Jarba

Jarba (Arabic: جربا‎) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate.

Jarba
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicجربا
Jarba
Location of Jarba within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°23′08″N 35°15′22″E
Palestine grid174/199
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateJenin
Government
 • TypeVillage council
Name meaningEl Jŭrbah, the plantation[1]

Nazlat Rahal

Just southwest of Jarba is Nazlat Rahal,[2] where Byzantine ceramics have been found.[3] SWP found at Kh. Haj Rah-hal: "traces of ruins."[4]

History

Pottery sherds from the Byzantine (10%), early Muslim (30%) and the Middle Ages (30%) have been found at Jarba.[5]

Ottoman era

Jarba, like all of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. About 30% of the pottery sherds found in the village date back to this period.[5] In the 1596 Ottoman tax registers, it was located in the nahiya of Jabal Sami, part of Sanjak of Nablus. Jarba was listed as an entirely Muslim village with a population of 11 households and 2 bachelors. The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, and goats and/or beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a tax on people from the Nablus area, a total of 1,500 akçe.[6]

In 1838 el-Jurba was noted as a village in the District of esh-Sha'rawiyeh esh-Shurkiyeh, the eastern part.[7][8]

In 1870, Victor Guérin noted it as a small village situated on a neighboring hill from Misilyah.[9]

In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Jurba as: "a small village on the side of a slope, with olives to the south."[10]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jarba had a population of 31 Muslims,[11] increasing in the 1931 census to 65 Muslim, in a total of 17 houses.[12]

In the 1944/5 statistics the population was 100, all Muslims,[13] with 3,530 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[14] 100 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,553 for cereals,[15] while 2 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[16]

Jordanian era

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

post-1967

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

References
  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 183
  2. Kh. el Haj Rahhâl, the ruin of el Hâj (Pilgrim) Rahhâl; according to Palmer, 1881, p. 185
  3. Dauphin, 1998, p. 756
  4. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 156
  5. Zertal, 2004, pp. 226- 227
  6. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 129
  7. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 153
  8. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 129
  9. Guérin, 1874, p. 344
  10. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 196
  11. Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
  12. Mills, 1932, p. 68
  13. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 Archived 2018-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
  14. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54
  15. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98
  16. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 148

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