Taibe, Galilee
Taibe
טַּיִּבָּה الطيبة | |
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Coordinates: 32°36′16″N 35°26′40″E / 32.60444°N 35.44444°E | |
Grid position | 192/223 PAL |
Country | Israel |
District | Northern |
Council | Gilboa |
Population (2022)[1] | 1,986 |
Taibe (
History
Remains from the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Crusader, and Mamluk periods have been found.[3][4]
Biblical identification
Historical geographer
Bronze Age to Byzantine period
It has been proposed that Taibe was Tubi, listed among the places paying tribute to Thutmose III.[6]
North east of the village sarcophagus remains have been found. This area apparently functioned as a graveyard during the Roman and Byzantine eras.[7]
In 2021, archaeologist announced the discovery of an engraved stone from the late
Crusader period
During the
In July 1182 the castle was the background of the pitched large-scale Battle of Forbelet between
Ottoman period
Taibe was incorporated into the
In 1870–1871 an Ottoman census listed the village as Tayiba-i Zu'bi, after its resident clan, in the nahiya (sub-district) of Shafa al-Shamali.[17] In 1875, the French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village and described it as poor, but formerly an important city,[18] while in 1882 the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described Taibe as: "A straggling village, of moderate size, lying on flat ground, and containing several good stone houses. There is one in the middle of the village, belonging to the Sheikh, which is larger than the rest."[6]
British Mandate
In a census conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, Taibeh had a population of 220, all Muslim,[19] while at the time of the 1931 census, At-Taiyiba had 43 occupied houses and a population of 186 Muslims.[20]
In the 1945 statistics Taibe had a population of 280 Muslims counted with 150 Jews at Moledet)[21] with 7,127 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[22] Of this, 7,103 dunams were used for cereals,[23] while 22 dunams were built-up land.[24]
State of Israel
Since 1948 Taibe has been part of the state of Israel. To mark Israel's 60th anniversary in 2008, the dome of the local mosque was painted in the Israeli colors, blue and white.[25][26]
Nearly all the residents of Taibe are members of the Zuabi family, one of the larger
See also
References
- ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p.167
- ^ a b Covello-Paran and Tepper, 2008, Et-Taiyiba
- ^ Tepper, 2012, E-Taiyiba, Survey Final Report
- ^ Ishtori Haparchi, Kaftor u'ferach vol. 2, (3rd edition, published by ed. Avraham Yosef Havatzelet), chapter 11, Jerusalem 2007, p. 63 (note 144) (Hebrew)
- ^ a b Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 87
- ^ Mokary, 2017, Et-Taiyiba, Horbat Haddad
- ^ Geggel, Laura (22 January 2021). "1,500-year-old 'Christ, born of Mary' inscription discovered in Israel". livescience.com. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
- ^ Davis-Marks, Isis. "Inscription Offers Earliest Evidence of Christianity in Israel's Jezreel Valley". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
- ^ "A 1,500 year-old inscription bearing the name "Christ, born of Mary" discovered at et-Taiyiba in the Jezreel Valley". The Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
- ^ a b c d Pringle, 1997, p. 104
- ^ le Strange, 1890, p. 385
- ISBN 978-0-8108-7830-3. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- ^ Abu Zidan, 2011, Et-Taiyiba Final Report
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 157
- ^ Karmon, 1960, p. 169
- ^ Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 256.
- fellahin for refuge : rude dwelling-houses have also been built within the inclosure. One of these houses, more considerable than the others, and partly constructed of good basaltic stones taken from the ruins of the fort, occupies the top of the acropolis, which I regard as ancient, although allowing that it may have received attention from the Mohammedans or the Crusaders. As for the city, which extended to the north and east of the castle, it now, with the exception of a few coursesstill upright, presents nothing but a heap of ruins.'
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Baisan, p. 31
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 81
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 7
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 44
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 85
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 135
- ^ "Galilee Arabs paint mosque blue and white for Israel's 60th". Haaretz. 12 January 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
- ^ Dudu Bazak (4 July 2008). "Identifying with the country: The mosque was painted blue and white". Maariv. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
- ^ Arab villagers in A-Taibeh struggle to be accepted as Israelis Haaretz, 12 January 2011
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(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. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
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(help) - Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 3: Galilee, pt. 1. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
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- 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.
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- Le Strange, G. (1890). Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
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- RHC Or vol. 4, 1898, Recueil des historiens des croisades (p. 345, cf p. 303)
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External links
- Welcome To Kh. al-Tayiba
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 9: IAA, Wikimedia commons, where it is listed as et Taiyibeh