Kharbatha Bani Harith

Coordinates: 31°56′43″N 35°04′21″E / 31.94528°N 35.07250°E / 31.94528; 35.07250
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Kharbatha Bani Harith
Village council
Area
 • Total7,120 dunams (7.12 km2 or 2.75 sq mi)
Elevation
[1]
396 m (1,299 ft)
Population
 (2017)[2]
 • Total3,471
 • Density490/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Name meaning"The ruins of the sons of Harith"[3]

Kharbatha Bani Harith (

Palestinian village in the central West Bank, located 15 kilometers west of Ramallah in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 3,471 in 2017.[2] It has a total land area of 7,120 dunams
.

Location

Kharbatha Bani Harith is located 13.1 kilometers (8.1 mi) west of

Kafr Ni’ma to the south.[1]

Etymology

The name of the village literally translates from Arabic as 'the ruins of the sons of Harith' and receives its appellation from the Ottoman-era district of Bani Harith where the village was located.[3] The Bani Harith was a tribe which left its imprint in other neighboring sites. The Arabic Kharbatha is derived from the Aramaic Ḫarbatā or Ḫarbata, a toponym also meaning 'the ruin'.[4]

History

Pottery

Mamluk era have been found here.[5]

Ottoman era

Kharbatha Bani Harith became part of the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine. In 1552, 'Kharbatha' was an inhabited village, and its tax revenues were endowed to the Haseki Sultan Imaret in Jerusalem. Administratively, the village belonged to the nahiya (subdistrict) of Ramla in the Gaza Sanjak.[6] In 1596 it appeared under the name of 'Harabta' in the Ottoman tax registers. It had a population of 29 Muslim and 4 Christian households.[7] They paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 2,200 Akçe. All of the revenues went to a Waqf.[8]

In 1870, the French traveler Victor Guérin found the village to have about 200 inhabitants. He also noted the remains of a church,[9] which has been dated to the Byzantine era (4th–7th centuries CE).[5] In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described Kharbatha Bani Harith as being of medium size, with a well on the west, "standing on high ground among the olive trees".[10]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kharbatha Bani Harith had a population of 338, all Muslims.[11] In the 1931 census the population increased to 469, still all Muslim, living in 102 houses.[12]

In the 1945 statistics the population of Kharbatha Bani Harith was 650, all Muslims,[13] who owned 7,120 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.[14] Of these, 2,788 dunams were used as plantations and irrigable land and 591 for grain fields,[15] while the built-up area consisted of 9 dunams.[16]

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Kharbatha Bani Harith came under Jordanian rule. The Jordanian census of 1961 found 835 inhabitants and the village was listed as 'Kh. Harithiya'.[17]

1967-present

After the

ARIJ, 833 dunams of village land has been confiscated by Israel for the Israeli settlement of Modi'in Illit.[18][19]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Kharbatha Bani Harith Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 4
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b Palmer, 1881, p. 237
  4. ^ Marom, Roy; Zadok, Ran (2023). "Early-Ottoman Palestinian Toponymy: A Linguistic Analysis of the (Micro-)Toponyms in Haseki Sultan's Endowment Deed (1552)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 139 (2).
  5. ^ a b Finkelstein and Lederman, 1997, p. 200
  6. ^ Marom, Roy (2022-11-01). "Jindās: A History of Lydda's Rural Hinterland in the 15th to the 20th Centuries CE". Lod, Lydda, Diospolis. 1: 8.
  7. ^ Petersen, 2005, p. 131
  8. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 155
  9. ^ Guérin, 1875, p. 84
  10. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 294
  11. ^ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramleh, p. 22
  12. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 21
  13. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 29
  14. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 67
  15. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 115
  16. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 165
  17. ^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 24
  18. ^ Kharbatha Bani Harith Village (Fact Sheet), ARIJ
  19. ^ Kharbatha Bani Harith Village Profile, p. 4, ARIJ

Bibliography

External links
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