Arranah

Coordinates: 32°29′50″N 35°19′20″E / 32.49722°N 35.32222°E / 32.49722; 35.32222
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’Arrana
Village council
Population
 (2017)
 • Total2,418
Name meaningfrom personal name, or perhaps from the Arab form of “a hyæna’s den” [1]

’Arrana (

Arabic: عرّانه) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate, located 4 kilometers Northeast of Jenin, in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 2,418 inhabitants in 2017.[2]

History

It has been suggested that this was Aaruna in the list of places conquered by Thutmose III.[3]

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[4]

Ottoman era

Arranah, like the rest of

Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25 % on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 9,000 akçe.[5]

In 1838, it was noted as a village in the Jenin district.[6][7]

In 1870, Victor Guérin noted it on a small hilltop.[8]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Arraneh as: "A small village, principally of mud, with a few stone houses, standing in the plain, surrounded by olive-yards. It is supplied with water from cisterns. A kubbeh exists about 1/4 mile north of the village."[3]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village had a population of 216 Muslims,[9] increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 267 Muslims, in 46 households.[10]

In 1944/5 statistics the population was 320, all Muslim,[11] with a total of 7,866 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[12] Of this, 13 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 6,460 dunams for cereals,[13] while 10 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[14]

Jordanian era

After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Arranah came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 539 inhabitants.[15]

Post-1967

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

Footnotes

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 159
  2. ^ Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (February 2018). "Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census 2017" (PDF). p. 64. Retrieved May 19, 2023.
  3. ^ a b Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, pp. 82-83
  4. ^ Dauphin, 1998, p. 783
  5. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 161
  6. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2 appendix, p. 130
  7. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp. 157, 160
  8. ^ Guérin, 1874, p. 337
  9. ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
  10. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 67
  11. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 Archived 2018-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54
  13. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98
  14. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 148
  15. ^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25

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