Mashhad, Israel
Mashhad
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Local council (from 1960) | |
| Hebrew transcription(s) | |
| • ISO 259 | Mašhad |
| • Also spelled | Meshhed (official) Mashhed (unofficial) |
.jpg) Mashhad, 2014 | |
  Mashhad | |
| Coordinates: 32°44′16″N 35°19′32″E / 32.73778°N 35.32556°E | |
| Grid position | 180/238 PAL |
| Country |  Israel |
| District | Northern |
| Area | |
| • Total | 7,286 dunams (7.286 km2 or 2.813 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[1] | |
| • Total | 8,771 |
| • Density | 1,200/km2 (3,100/sq mi) |
| Name meaning | "The shrine or place of martyrdom"[2] |
Mashhad (
History
Remains from the Early Bronze Age, Persian, Roman and Byzantine eras have been found.[4][5]
Mashhad is located on the site of
Archaeological findings in Mashad include a third-century Aramaic gravestone, indicating Jewish settlement at the site during the Late Roman period, and a stone inscribed with Greek letters now reused in Mashad's mosque.[7]
Ottoman Empire
In 1517, the village was incorporated into the
A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin showed the place, named as El Mecheb.[10]
In 1838 it was noted as a Muslim village in the Nazareth district.[11][12]
In 1875, the French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village, which he estimated had at most 300 inhabitants.[13] In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Meshed as "A small village, built of stone, surrounding the traditional tomb of Jonah -a low building surmounted by two white-washed domes. It contains about 300 Moslems, and is situated on the top of a hill, without gardens. The water supply is from cisterns."[14]
A population list from about 1887 showed that el Meshed had about 450 inhabitants; all Muslims.[15]
British Mandate
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Mashad had a total population of 356, all Muslim,[16] which had increased in the 1931 census to 487; 486 Muslims and 1 Christian, in a total of 111 houses.[17]
In the 1945 statistics the population was 660, all Muslims,[18] with 11,067 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[19] Of this, 378 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 4,663 for cereals,[20] while 24 dunams were built-up land.[21]
Israel
Mashhad became a local council in 1960.[citation needed]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 131
- ^ Mashhed (Israel): Description Gutterman, Dov. FOTW.
- ^ Porat, 2006, Tel Gat Hefer
- ^ "This place is probably the Gittah-Hepher or (Gath ha Hepher of (Joshua 19:13), and (2 Kings 14:25). Jerome says that the prophet Jonah was buried at Gath, about two miles from Sepphoris. Benjamin of Tudela says that the prophet's tomb was on a hill near Sepphoris. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, p. 413
- ^ Limburg 1993, p. 39.
- ISBN 978-3-11-071577-4, retrieved 2024-02-07
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 188
- ^ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied from the Safad-district was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
- ^ Karmon, 1960, p. 166.
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 132
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 209
- ^ Guérin, 1880, p. 165 ff
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, p. 363.
- ^ Schumacher, 1888, p. 182
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Nazareth, p. 38
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 74
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 8
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 62
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 109
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 159
Bibliography
- Alexandre, Yardenna (2008-01-13). "Tel Gat Hefer Final Report" (120). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- Feig, Nurit (2016-12-19). "Tel Gat Hefer Final Report" (128). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 3: Galilee, pt. 1. 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.
- Jaffe, Gilad Bezal’el (2012-11-27). "Tel Gat Hefer Final Report" (124). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Karmon, Y. (1960). "An Analysis of Jacotin's Map of Palestine" (PDF). Israel Exploration Journal. 10 (3, 4): 155–173, 244–253.
- Limburg, James (1993), Jonah: A Commentary, Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster Knox Publishers, ISBN 0-664-21296-4
- 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.
- Porat, Leea (2006-09-21). "Tel Gat Hefer Final Report" (118). Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University.
- 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.
- Schumacher, G. (1888). "Population list of the Liwa of Akka". Quarterly Statement - Palestine Exploration Fund. 20: 169–191.
External links
- Welcome To Mashhad
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 6: IAA, Wikimedia commons
