Yatma

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Yatma
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicيتما
Yatma, 2012
Yatma, 2012
Yatma is located in State of Palestine
Yatma
Yatma
Location of Yatma within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°06′30″N 35°16′06″E / 32.10833°N 35.26833°E / 32.10833; 35.26833Coordinates: 32°06′30″N 35°16′06″E / 32.10833°N 35.26833°E / 32.10833; 35.26833
Palestine grid175/168
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateNablus
Government
 • TypeVillage council
Population
 (2006)
 • Total2,981
Name meaningfrom Yetma, personal name[1]

Yatma (Arabic: يتما‎) is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 15 kilometers south of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 2,981 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.[2]

Location[]

Yatma is located 12.4 km south of Nablus. It is bordered by Qabalan to the east and south, Beita to the north, Yasuf and As Sawiya to the west.[3]

History[]

Pottery sherds from the Iron Age II, Persian, Hellenistic/Roman and the Crusader/Ayyubid eras have been found here.[4]

It has been suggested that this was the place of origin of Dosthai of Kefar Iathma,[5] and that it was the Eincheitem of the Crusader period.[4]

Sherds from the Mamluk era has also been found here.[4]

Ottoman era[]

In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and in the 1596 tax-records it appeared as Yitma, located in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal of the Liwa of Nablus. The population was 10 households and 2 bachelors, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, a press for olive oil or grape syrup, in addition to occasional revenues and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 1,800 akçe.[6] Sherds from the early Ottoman era have also been found here.[4]

In 1838, Edward Robinson noted it as part of Jurat Merda District, south of Nablus.[7][8]

In 1850/1 de Saulcy noted Yatma on his travels in the region,[9] as did Victor Guérin in 1870.[10]

In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine Yetma was described as "A little village, on high ground, with olives round it."[11]

British Mandate era[]

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Yatma had a population of 242 Muslims,[12] increasing in the 1931 census to 325 Muslims, in 64 houses.[13]

In the 1945 statistics the population was 440 Muslims[14] while the total land area was 3,777 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[15] Of this, 1,214 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,741 for cereals,[16] while 44 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[17]

Jordanian era[]

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Yatma came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 618 inhabitants.[18]

Post 1967[]

See also: Mount Sabih and Evyatar

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Yatma has been under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 29% of village land is defined as Area B land, while the remaining 71% is defined as Area C land. Israel has also confiscated village land for Israeli bypass roads.[19]

In 2011, two cars were set ablaze in Yatma and the village mosque was vandalised with Hebrew graffiti, reading "price tag" and "Migron", in what was assumed to be a price tag attack by Israeli settlers.[20][21]

References[]

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 250
  2. ^ Projected Mid -Year Population for Nablus Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  3. ^ Yatma Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 4
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 639
  5. ^ Neubauer, 1868, pp. 268-269
  6. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 136
  7. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, Appendix 2, p. 127
  8. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, p. 92
  9. ^ Saulcy, 1854, vol 1, p. 103
  10. ^ Guérin, 1875, p. 163
  11. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 287
  12. ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, p. 25
  13. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 66
  14. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 19
  15. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 61
  16. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 108
  17. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 158
  18. ^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25
  19. ^ Yatma Village Profile, ARIJ, pp. 15-17
  20. ^ Second West Bank Mosque Vandalized, Settlers Blamed, 8 September 2011
  21. ^ Quamar Mishirqi-Asad,'High ‘Price Tag’ in the Mosque of the Village Yatma,' in Rabbis for Human Rights, 13 September 2011. Archived September 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

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