Saffarin

Saffarin (Arabic: سفارين‎) is a Palestinian village in the Tulkarm Governorate in the western West Bank, located 11 kilometers South-east of Tulkarm. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Saffarin had a population of approximately 1,037 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.[2] 9.8% of the population of Saffarin were refugees in 1997.[3] The healthcare facilities for Saffarin are designated as MOH level 2.[4]

Saffarin
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicسفارين
Saffarin
Location of Saffarin within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°15′43″N 35°06′39″E
Palestine grid160/185
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateTulkarm
Government
 • TypeVillage council
Population
 (2006)
 • Total1,037
Name meaningSefarin, from personal name[1]

History

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[5]

During the Crusader period, Diya' al-Din (1173–1245) writes that there was a Muslim population in the Saffarin.[6][7]

Ottoman era

Saffarin, like all of Palestine was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. In the 1596 tax registers, part of the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Jabal Sami, part of the larger Sanjak of Nablus. It had a population of 8 households, all Muslims. The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a press for olive oil or grape syrup, and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 9,167 akçe. 3/24 of the revenue went to the Waqf Halil ar-Rahman.[8]

In 1870 Victor Guérin noted it as a village of 600 persons.[9]

In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Sefarin as: "a small village on a knoll, upon a ridge, supplied by cisterns, with a few olive trees."[10]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Sufarin had a population of 458 Muslims,[11] increasing in the 1931 census to 444 Muslims, living in 100 houses.[12]

In the 1945 statistics the population of Saffarin was 530 Muslims,[13] with 9,687 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.[14] Of this, 1,624 dunams were used plantations and irrigable land, 1,384 for cereals,[15] while 13 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[16]

Jordanian era

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

In 1961, the population was 616.[17]

Post 1967

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

References
  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 190
  2. Projected Mid -Year Population for Tulkarm Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
  3. Palestinian Population by Locality and Refugee Status Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  4. Health care Facilities Tulkarm Governorate
  5. Dauphin, 1998, p. 768
  6. Talmon-Heller, 1994, p. 109
  7. Talmon-Heller, 2002, p. 134
  8. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 126
  9. Guérin, 1875, p. 212
  10. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 161
  11. Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Tulkarm, p. 27
  12. Mills, 1932, p. 57
  13. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 21
  14. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 76
  15. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 127
  16. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 177
  17. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 27

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