Nimrin
Nimrin
نمرين | ||
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Etymology: well-watered[1] | ||
Geopolitical entity Mandatory Palestine | | |
Subdistrict | Tiberias | |
Date of depopulation | 16-17 July 1948[4] | |
Area | ||
• Total | 12,019 dunams (12.019 km2 or 4.641 sq mi) | |
Population (1945) | ||
• Total | 320[2][3] | |
Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting | |
Secondary cause | Military assault by Yishuv forces | |
Current Localities | Achuzzat Naftali, IDF ammunition depot |
Nimrin was a
History
Nimrin stood on the site of Kfar Nimra when
Ottoman era
Nimrin was incorporated into the
A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin showed the place, named as Nemen.[9]
In the nineteenth century, Nimrin grew to become a stone-built village of 250
A population list from about 1887 showed Nimrin to have about 300 inhabitants; all Muslims.[11]
British Mandate era
In 1922, Nimrin became a part of the British Mandate of Palestine and in the 1922 census of Palestine, Nemrin had a population of 273; all Muslims,[12] increasing in the 1931 census to 316, still all Muslims, in a total of 71 houses.[13]
The main economic sectors were farming and livestock, with grain being the most important crop, followed by vegetables. The Ottoman school was closed down during this period.[5]
In the 1945 statistics the population consisted of 320 Muslims,[2] and the total land area was 12,019 dunams.[3] Of this, Arabs used 7,905 dunams for cereals, 335 for plantations and irrigable land,[14] while 64 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) area.[15]
1948 war, and aftermath
During the
See also
- Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel
References
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 132
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 12
- ^ a b c Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 72
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #95, also causes of depopulation, with a "?"
- ^ a b c d Khalidi, 1992, p.535
- ^ Murray, 1997, p.165.
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 189. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 535
- ^ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 Archived 2019-04-20 at the Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
- ^ Karmon, 1960, p. 166 Archived 2019-12-22 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 361. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 535
- ^ Schumacher, 1888, p. 185
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Tiberias, p. 39
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 84
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 123
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 173
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. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
- 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 2015-04-20.
- 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.
- Murray, Lawrence (1997). The Amazing Spread of Christianity. St. Jude Press. ISBN 0-9722149-2-5.
- 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.
- Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University. Archived from the original on 2020-03-01. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
- Schumacher, G. (1888). "Population list of the Liwa of Akka". Quarterly Statement - Palestine Exploration Fund. 20: 169–191.
External links
- Welcome to Nimrin
- Nimrin, Zochrot
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 6: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Nimrin, from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center
- Nimrin photos, from Dr. Moslih Kanaaneh