Qalansawe
Qalansawe
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Hebrew transcription(s) | |
• ISO 259 | Qalansuwa |
• Translit. | Kalansuwa or Qalansuwa |
• Also spelled | Kalansoueh,[1] Qalansuwa (unofficial) |
ITM 148/187 PAL | |
Country | Israel |
District | Central |
Government | |
• Mayor | Yossif Takrouri |
Area | |
• Total | 8,400 dunams (8.4 km2 or 3.2 sq mi) |
Population (2022)[2] | |
• Total | 24,205 |
• Density | 2,900/km2 (7,500/sq mi) |
Qalansawe or Qalansuwa (
History
Early Muslim period
During the
Crusader and Mamluk periods
During the Crusader period, the village was known as Calanson, Calansue, Calanzon or Kalensue.[8] In 1128, it was given to the Hospitallers by the knight Godfrey of Flujeac.[8][9] Yaqut (d. 1229) wrote that Qalansawe, Castle of the Plains, of the Crusaders, was a fortress near Ramle.[6] Remnants of a crusader fortress remain today.[8] It remained in Hospitallers hands (except for 1187–1191) until Baybars took it in 1265.[8] However, during this period the lord of Caesarea appears to have retained overlordship.[8]
In 1265, after the
Ottoman period
In 1517, the village was included in the
Pierre Jacotin called the village Qalensawi on his map from 1799.[12]
19th-century explorers
In 1870, the French explorer
In the 1860s, the Ottoman authorities granted the village an agricultural plot of land called Ghabat Umm Ulayqa, or Ghabat Qalansuwa, in the former confines of the Forest of Arsur (Ar. Al-Ghaba) in the coastal plain, west of the village.[14][15]
In 1882, the
British Mandate
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Qualansawe had a population of 871 Muslims,[17] increasing in the 1931 census to 1069, still all Muslim, in a total of 225 houses.[18]
By the
Israel
20th century
During the 1948 Palestine war, Jewish forces had decided to "conquer and destroy" or later "expel or subdue" Qalansawe,[23] but the village was not taken[24] and was only transferred to Israeli sovereignty in May 1949 as part of the Israel-Jordan armistice agreement.[25] Political considerations then prevented the expulsion of the villagers.[26]
In 1955 the village became a local council. In 1957 it was connected to running water. By 1962, land ownership had dropped to 6,620 dunams, mostly due to expropriation of land by the Israeli government in 1953–1954.[27]
21st century
In 2000 Qalansawe became a city.
In January 2017, the Israeli government demolished 11 buildings being built by 4 families, on the grounds that they were built without permits.[28] The families were given two days notice, which they said was insufficient for any legal response.[28] The mayor of Qalansawe, who announced his resignation, said that he had fought unsuccessfully for years for an expansion of the town's building plan, forcing the residents to build on agricultural land.[29] Thousands of people rallied in support of the village and a one-day strike was called.[29][30]
Demographics
In 2001, the ethnic makeup of the city was virtually all
See also
References
- ^ a b Guerin, 1875, p. 350
- ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ "The turban tradition in Islam". Archived from the original on 2011-09-09. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p.187
- ^ Robinson 2010, p. 240.
- ^ a b Cited in Le Strange, 1890, p.476
- ^ Petersen, 2001, pp. 248-249, citing among others Hartmann, 1910, 675, 676
- ^ a b c d e Pringle, 1997, pp. 77–78
- ^ Röhricht, 1904, RRH Ad, pp.9-10, No. 121a
- ^ Ibn al-Furat, 1971, pp. 8o, 210, 249 (map)
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 139
- ^ Karmon, 1960, p. 170 Archived 2019-12-22 at the Wayback Machine Note that Karmon gives the wrong grid-numbers for Qalansawe
- ^ Guérin, 1875, pp. 350-352, 354 as translated in Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, pp. 201
- ^ Marom, Roy, "The Contribution of Conder's Tent Work in Palestine for the Understanding of Shifting Geographical, Social and Legal Realities in the Sharon during the Late Ottoman Period", in Gurevich D. and Kidron, A. (eds.), Exploring the Holy Land: 150 Years of the Palestine Exploration Fund, Sheffield, UK, Equinox (2019), pp. 212-231
- ^ Marom, Roy (2022). "The Oak Forest of the Sharon (al-Ghaba) in the Ottoman Period: New Insights from Historical- Geographical Studies, Muse 5,". escholarship.org. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 165
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Tulkarem, p. 28
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 56
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 21
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970 p. 76
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 127
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 177
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. 246
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. 302
- ^ UN Doc S/1302/Rev.1 of 3 April 1949 Archived 12 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. 531
- ^ S. Jiryis (1976). "The land question in Israel". MERIP Reports (37): 5–20, 24–26.
- ^ a b Jack Khoury (Jan 10, 2017). "Israel Demolishes Buildings in Arab Town, Citing Lack of Permits". Haaretz.
- ^ a b Jack Khoury (Jan 13, 2017). "Thousands Rally in Israeli Arab Town After State Demolishes Homes". Haaretz.
- AFP (January 11, 2017). "Israeli Arabs strike in protest at house demolitions". Al-Monitor.
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- 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. (pp. 199-201.)
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- 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.
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- Hartmann, Richard (1910): Die Straße von Damaskus nach Kairo Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft › Bd. 64 (Cited in Petersen, 2001)
- 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.
- Ibn al-Furat (1971). J. Riley-Smith (ed.). Ayyubids, Mamluks and Crusaders: Selections from the "Tarikh Al-duwal Wal-muluk" of Ibn Al-Furat : the Text, the Translation. Vol. 2. Translation by Malcolm Cameron Lyons, Ursula Lyons. Cambridge: W. Heffer.
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- Robinson, Chase F. (2010). "The Violence of the Abbasid Revolution". Living Islamic History: Studies in Honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-3738-6.
- Röhricht, R. (1904). (RRH Ad) Regesta regni Hierosolymitani Additamentum (in Latin). Berlin: Libraria Academica Wageriana.
External links
- Welcome To Qalansiwa
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11: IAA, Wikimedia commons