Jit, Qalqilya
Jit | |
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Village council | |
Elevation | 501 m (1,644 ft) |
Population (2017)[2] | |
• Total | 2,405 |
Name meaning | Kuryet Jit, the town of Jit[3] |
Jit (
Location
Jit is located 19.7 kilometers (12.2 mi) (horizontally) north-east of Qalqilya. It is bordered by Sarra and Beit Iba to the east, Fara'ata and Immatain to the south, Kafr Qaddum to the west, and Qusin to the north.[1]
History
No Byzantine remains have been found here, leading scholars to suggest that the early Muslim inhabitants came there as a result of migration, and not conversion.[4] However, in 2011 two reliefs of menorahs dating from the Byzantine period, probably of Samaritan origin, were discovered in Jit.[5]
Ottoman era
In 1517, the village was included in the
A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin named it Qarihagi, (Quryet Jitt) as a village by the road from Jaffa to Nablus.[9]
In 1838, Kuryet Jit was noted as a village located in the District of Jurat 'Amra, south of Nablus.[10][11]
In 1870, Victor Guérin noted between seven hundred and fifty and eight hundred people in the village.[13] Also, "here Guérin observed among the houses a certain number of cut stones of apparent antiquity. Many of the houses are in a ruinous condition, others are completely destroyed. On the north-west side of the hill he found a great
In 1870/1871 (1288
In 1882, the
British Mandate era
In the
In the 1945 statistics the population of Jit was 440 (all Muslim),[18] while the total land area was 6,461 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[19] Of this, 816 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 3,915 for cereals,[20] while 61 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) areas.[21]
Jordanian era
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Jit came under Jordanian rule. It was annexed by Jordan in 1950.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 660 inhabitants.[22]
Post 1967
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Jit has been under Israeli occupation.
After the
Reports have been made about Israeli settlers from Kedumim stealing the olive harvest from the farmers of Jit.[24]
Demography
Some of Jit's residents relocated to the nearby localities of
Footnotes
- ^ a b Jit 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. 187
- ^ Ellenblum, 2003, p. 263
- ^ ארליך 2013 ארליך, ז"ח, 2013 .ארבע מנורות שומרוניות בג'ית ובקדום שבשומרון. בתוך: י' רוזנסון וי' שפנייר (עורכים), מנחת ספיר – אסופת מאמרים: מנחות ידידות והוקרה לכבוד יצחק ספיר. אלקנה ורחובות, עמ' 391–402. [Four Samaritan menorahs in Jit and Qaddum in Samaria] [Hebrew]
- ^ Ellenblum, 2003, p. 244
- ^ Drory, 1988, pp. 97, 110
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 133
- ^ Karmon, 1960, p. 156 Archived 2019-12-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 127
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 144 Also noted it as old Gitta, later repeated by Guérin etc.
- ^ a b Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 163
- ^ Guérin, 1875, p. 181
- ^ Guérin, 1875, pp. 180 -181; as given in Conder and Kitchener, 1882, p. 201
- ^ Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 252.
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 24
- ^ Mills, 1931, p. 62
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 18
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 60
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 106.
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 156.
- ^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25
- ^ a b Jit village profile, ARIJ, 2013, pp. 15-16
- Al-Araby Al-Jadeed
- ^ Grossman, D. "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". In Dar, S.; Safrai, S. (eds.). 1986. Shomron Studies. Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 350.
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.
- Drory, Joseph (1988). "Hanbalis of the Nablus Region in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries". Asian and African Studies. 22: 93–112.
- ISBN 9780521521871.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 2019-12-22. Retrieved 2018-12-30.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- 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.
External links
- Welcome to Jit
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Jit village (fact sheet), Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ)
- Jit village profile, ARIJ
- Jit, aerial photo, ARIJ
- Development Priorities and Needs in Jit, ARIJ