Kafr Sur
Kafr Sur | |
|---|---|
Municipality type C | |
| Arabic transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | كفر صور |
 Elementary school in Kafr Sur | |
  Kafr Sur Location of Kafr Sur within Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°14′38″N 35°03′52″E / 32.24389°N 35.06444°ECoordinates: 32°14′38″N 35°03′52″E / 32.24389°N 35.06444°E | |
| Palestine grid | 156/183 |
| State | State of Palestine |
| Governorate | Tulkarm |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Total | 1,253 |
| Name meaning | The village of the rock[1] |
Kafr Sur (Arabic: كفر صور) is a Palestinian town in the Tulkarm Governorate in the eastern West Bank, located 12 kilometers Southeast of Tulkarm. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Kafr Sur had a population of approximately 1,254 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.[2] 13.5% of the population of Kafr Sur were refugees in 1997.[3]
History[]
Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[4]
Ottoman era[]
Al-Ras was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in a sijill (royal order) from 941/1535 an unspecified share of the village revenue was given to the waqf for Ribat al-Mansuri (com) in Jerusalem.[5]
In 1596 the village appeared in the tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Bani Sa'b of the Liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 22 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 33,3% on various agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and/or beehives in addition to occasional revenues, a press for olive oil or grape syrup, and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 6,100 akçe.[6]
In 1838, Robinson noted Kefr Sur as a village in Beni Sa'ab district, west of Nablus.[7]
In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Kefr Sur as: "A small stone village on a knoll, supplied by cisterns."[8]
British Mandate era[]
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kufr Sur had a population of 271 Muslims,[9] increasing in the 1931 census to 559; 553 Muslims and 6 Christians, living in 128 houses. The 1931 numbers included the Bayarat Hannoun and the Arab el Balawin.[10]
In the 1945 statistics the population of Kafr Sur was 460; 450 Muslims and 10 Christians,[11] with 10,926 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.[12] Of this, 878 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 2,644 were used for cereals,[13] while 14 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[14]
Kafr Sur 1942 1:20,000
Kafr Sur 1945 1:250,000
Jordanian era[]
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Kafr Sur came under Jordanian rule.
In 1961, the population of Kafr Sur was 656.[15]
Post 1967[]
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Kafr Sur has been under Israeli occupation.
References[]
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 184
- ^ Projected Mid -Year Population for Tulkarm Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
- ^ Palestinian Population by Locality and Refugee Status Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
- ^ Dauphin, 1998, p. 770
- ^ Burgoyne, 1987, pp. 130−131
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 139
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 127
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 165
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Tulkarm, p. 27
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 57
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 21
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 75
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 126
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 176
- ^ Government of Jordan, 1964, p. 27
Bibliography[]
- Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Burgoyne, Michael Hamilton (1987). Mamluk Jerusalem. ISBN 090503533X.
- Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. ISBN 0-860549-05-4.
- Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics (1964). First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population (PDF).
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- 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.
- 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.
- Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
External links[]
- Welcome To Kafr Sur
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Tulkarm Governorate
- Villages in the West Bank
- Municipalities of the State of Palestine