Talfit

This article is about the village in the Nablus Governorate. For the village in the Jenin Governorate, see Telfit.
Talfit
Other transcription(s)
 • Arabic تلفيت
Talfit

Location of Talfit within the Palestinian territories

Coordinates: 32°05′19″N 35°17′29″E / 32.08861°N 35.29139°E / 32.08861; 35.29139Coordinates: 32°05′19″N 35°17′29″E / 32.08861°N 35.29139°E / 32.08861; 35.29139
Palestine grid 177/165
Governorate Nablus
Government
 • Type Village council
 • Head of Municipality Raed Ershed
Population (2007)
 • Jurisdiction 2,824

Talfit (Arabic: تلفيت‎‎)[1] is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank, located 21 kilometers southeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, it had a population of 2,824 in 2007.[2]

History

Potsherds from the IA II, Persian, Byzantine/Ayyubid, Mamluk and early Ottoman period have been found.[3] Röhricht suggested identifying Talfit with Tarphin, mentioned in a Crusader text from 1154,[4] but a later author (Abel) preferred to locate it at Kh. Tarfein to the north of Bir Zeit.[5] According to Finkelstein, Kh. Tarfein better fits the archaeological finds.[3]

Ottoman era

In 1596, Talfit appeared in Ottoman tax registers as a village in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal in the Liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 12 Muslim households and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summercrops, olives, and goats or beehives.[6]

The Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine noted in 1882 that the place resembled Kabalan, described as a village of moderate size, on high ground, surrounded by olive-trees. Talfit was supplied with water from a well called Ain Telfit.[7]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Talfit had a population of 352, all Muslims,[8] increasing in the 1931 census to 464, still all Muslim, in 116 occupied houses.[9]

In 1945 Telfit had a population of 610, all Muslims,[10] with 6,258 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[11] Of this, 3,309 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,228 used for cereals,[12] while 49 dunams were built-up land.[13]

1948-1967

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

1967-present

After the Six-Day War in 1967, Talfit has been under Israeli occupation.

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881 p. 245
  2. ↑ 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p. 110.
  3. 1 2 Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 655
  4. ↑ Röhricht, 1887, p. 213
  5. ↑ Abel, 1928:52, cited in Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 655
  6. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 133
  7. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 288
  8. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 25
  9. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 65
  10. ↑ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 19
  11. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 61
  12. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 108
  13. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 158

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