Al-Qubayba, Ramle
Al-Qubayba
القبيبة | |
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Etymology: The little dome[1] | |
Al-Qubayba (
History
In the late Ottoman era, Pierre Jacotin noted it as an unnamed village on his map from 1799.[7]
In 1863, Victor Guérin found the village to contains four hundred and fifty inhabitants. The houses were grouped together on a hill, and surrounded by gardens planted with figs, olives, cucumbers, and tobacco.[8]
An Ottoman village list of about 1870 showed Kubebe with a population of 499, in 210 houses, though the population count included men, only.[9][10]
In 1882, the
British Mandate era
An elementary school for boys was founded in 1929, and by 1945 it had an enrollment of 344 students.[12]
In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, El Qubeiba had 799 Muslim inhabitants in 160 houses.[13]
In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 1,720 Muslims,[2] and the total land area was 10,737 dunams.[3] Of this, Arabs used 4,639 dunams for citrus and bananas, 1,143 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, 2,972 dunums were allocated to cereals,[14] while 43 dunams were classified as built-up urban areas.[15]
1948, aftermath
The village was depopulated by the Israeli army in 1948.
The Israeli moshav of Ge'alya was also constructed on village land.[5]
In 1992 the village site was described: "The walls and rubble of collapsed houses intermingle with the buildings of the Israeli settlements that have been established on the site. A former pool is used as a garbage dump. Some houses remain. One house, occupied by Jewish residents, is of modest size and is made of masonry; the beams that support its flat roof protrude slightly from the masonry of the exterior walls. Another village house is now used as a restaurant. Part of the school, a long building with a rectangular door and windows, still stands. Cactus hedges and sycamore and palm trees grow on the southern edge of the site."[5]
References
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 272
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 30
- ^ a b c Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 68
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xix, village #251. Also gives cause of depopulation.
- ^ a b c d e Khalidi, 1992, p. 408
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxi, settlement #85.
- ^ Karmon, 1960, p. 171 Archived 2017-12-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Guérin, 1869, p. 52
- ^ Socin, 1879, p. 157
- ^ Hartmann, 1883, p. 133, noted 209 houses
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 408
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 407
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 22
- ^ 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
- ^ a b Achia Kohn-Tavor, Rona S. Avissar Lewis, Ron Kehati (2022). "Tell Musa Shahin — al-Kubeibeh: a 19th-20th Century Village" (PDF). NGSBA Archaeology. 6: 230–245.
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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.
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
- Goldwasser, Orly (1992). "On the Date of Seth from Qubeibeh". Israel Exploration Journal. 42: 47–52.
- Guérin, V. (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 1: Judee, 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 2009-08-18.
- Hartmann, M. (1883). "Die Ortschaftenliste des Liwa Jerusalem in dem türkischen Staatskalender für Syrien auf das Jahr 1288 der Flucht (1871)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 6: 102–149.
- Karmon, Y. (1960). "An Analysis of Jacotin's Map of Palestine" (PDF). Israel Exploration Journal. 10 (3, 4): 155–173, 244–253. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
- ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
- 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.
- Socin, A. (1879). "Alphabetisches Verzeichniss von Ortschaften des Paschalik Jerusalem". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 2: 135–163.
External links
- Welcome to al-Qubayba
- al-Qubayba (Ramla), Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 16: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- al-Qubayba at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center