Al-Lubban al-Gharbi
al-Lubban al-Gharbi | |
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Village council | |
Area | |
• Total | 9,694 dunams (9.7 km2 or 3.7 sq mi) |
Elevation | 269 m (883 ft) |
Population (2017)[2] | |
• Total | 1,566 |
• Density | 160/km2 (420/sq mi) |
Name meaning | "The milk-white spot of Rentis"[3] |
Al-Lubban al-Gharbi (
Al-Lubban al-Gharbi has a total land area of 9,694 dunams, of which 335 are built-up area. Most of the remaining land is either grown with olive and almond orchards or open for continued expansion of the village. However, the Israeli West Bank barrier will separate 59% of Lubban al-Gharbi's land from the village's urban area.[4][unreliable source?] The village's infrastructure facilities include an elementary school a kindergarten, and two clinics.
Location
Al Lubban al Gharbi is located (horizontally) 21.2 kilometers (13.2 mi) north-west of
History
The village is located at an ancient site on the slopes of a hill.[5]
There are remains of ancient buildings, the stones of which have been reused in some the village's inhabited houses. In the courtyard of the village
The village has been identified with Beit Laban of the
Al-Lubban al-Gharbi has also been identified with the
Ottoman era
The village was incorporated into the
In 1838, it was noted as a Muslim village, Lubban Rentis, in Jurat Merda, south of Nablus.[10]
French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village in 1863, and noted that "The houses appear to be very ancient, and present the particularity that many of them form together a continued whole, as if they were all one house, now divided among separate families. A quantity of ancient materials may be observed in the walls."[11] He further noted that the village had 300 inhabitants.[12]
In 1870/1871 (1288
In 1882 PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP), the village, (called "Lubban Rentis"), was described a being small, and situated on a knoll beside a Roman road.[14]
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Lubban had a population 221 inhabitants, all Muslims,[15] increasing in the 1931 census when the village, with the name Al-Lubban or Lubban Rantis, had 60 occupied houses and a population of 298 Muslims.[16]
In the 1945 statistics the population of El Lubban was 340, all Muslims,[17] who owned 9,854 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.[18] 1,411 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,118 used for cereals,[19] while 6 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[20]
Jordanian era
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Al-Lubban al-Gharbi came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 602 inhabitants in Lubban.[21]
1967-present
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Al-Lubban al-Gharbi has been under Israeli occupation.
After the
See also
References
- ^ a b Al Lubban al Gharbi Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 4
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 238
- ^ Al Lubban Al Gharbi Village feels the threat of the Israeli Segregation Wall, POICA, 2006-03-18
- ^ a b Dauphin, 1998, p. 822
- ^ Finkelstein, 1997, p. 245
- ^ Neubauer, 1868, p. 82; cited in Finkelstein, 1997, p. 245
- ^ Röhricht, 1893, RHH, pp. 258-260, No. 983; cited in Finkelstein, 1997, p. 245
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 132
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 126
- ^ Guérin, 1875, pp. 112-113, as translated in Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 360
- ^ Guérin, 1875, p. 112
- ^ Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 252.
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 286
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramleh, p. 22
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 21
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 30
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 67
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 116
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 166
- ^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 24
- ^ Al Lubban al Gharbi Village Profile, ARIJ, pp. 15–16
Bibliography
- Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- ISBN 0-860549-05-4.
- ISBN 965-440-007-3.
- Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics (1964). First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population (PDF).
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
- Guérin, V. (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
- Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center. Archived from the original on 2018-12-08. Retrieved 2012-09-14.
- Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Neubauer, A. (1868). La géographie du Talmud : mémoire couronné par l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (in French). Paris: Lévy.
- Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
- Röhricht, R. (1893). (RRH) Regesta regni Hierosolymitani (MXCVII-MCCXCI) (in Latin). Berlin: Libraria Academica Wageriana.
External links
- Welcome To al-Lubban
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Al Lubban al Gharbi Village (Fact Sheet), Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem, ARIJ
- Al Lubban al Gharbi Village Profile, ARIJ
- Al Lubban al Gharbi Aerial Photo, ARIJ
- Locality Development Priorities and Needs in Al Lubban al Gharbi Village, ARIJ
- Al Lubban Al Gharbi Village feels the threat of the Israeli Segregation Wall 18, March, 2006, ARIJ
- Witnessing Israeli violations:" Al-Lubban Al-Gharbi village, Jeet village, Beit Hanina" Proactive Israeli Colonial Escalation before September bid for a Palestinian State 07, September, 2011, ARIJ