Zeita, Tulkarm

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Zeita
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicزيتا
 • LatinZeita (official)
Zayta (unofficial)
Zeita, ca. 1950-1955
Zeita, ca. 1950-1955
Zeita is located in State of Palestine
Zeita
Zeita
Location of Zeita within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°23′04″N 35°03′03″E / 32.38444°N 35.05083°E / 32.38444; 35.05083Coordinates: 32°23′04″N 35°03′03″E / 32.38444°N 35.05083°E / 32.38444; 35.05083
Palestine grid155/199
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateTulkarm
Government
 • TypeVillage council
Population
 (2007)
 • Total2,842
Name meaningOlive[1]

Zeita (Arabic: زيتا‎) is a Palestinian town in the Tulkarm Governorate in the western West Bank, located 11 kilometers North-east of Tulkarm. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Zeita had a population of 2,852 inhabitants in 2007.[2] 21.5% of the population of Zeita were refugees in 1997.[3] The healthcare facilities for Zeita are designated as MOH level 2.[4]

History[]

Zeita is an ancient village where marble Corinthian capitals have been reused in a local Maqam.[5]

Pottery remains have been found here from the Byzantine, early Muslim and the Middle Ages.[6]

In 1265, Zeita was among the villages and estates sultan Baibars allocated to his amirs after he had expelled the Crusaders. Half of Zaita was given to emir Jamal al-Din Aidughdi al-'Azizi, a quarter to emir Shams al-Din Ildikuz al-Karaki, and a quarter to emir Saif al-Din Qilij al-Baghdadi.[7]

Ottoman era[]

The village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine in 1517. In the 1596 Ottoman tax records, it appeared under the name of Zaita, located in the Nahiya Qaqun, in the Nablus Sanjak. It had a population of 91 Muslim and 7 Christian households.[8] They paid a fixed tax-rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a press for olive oil or grape syrup and a tax on people in the Nablus area; a total of 3,440 akçe.[9] Pottery remains from the Ottoman era have also been found here.[6]

Zeita appears on sheet 45 Jacotin's map drawn-up during Napoleon's invasion in 1799, though its position is not accurate.[10][11]

During the 1834 Peasants' revolt in Palestine, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt pursued rebels to Zeita. Ninety rebels were slain here, while the rest fled to nearby Deir al-Ghusun.[12] At Deir al-Ghusun, many of the inhabitants and rebels heeded a call by Husayn Abd al-Hadi to flee once the Egyptian troops arrived. In response, rebel commander Qasim had several of the defectors among his ranks killed.[13] Ibrahim Pasha's troops stormed the hill and the rebels (mostly members of the Qasim, Jarrar, Jayyusi and Barqawi clans) were routed, suffering 300 fatalities.[12] In 1838 it was noted as a village, Zeita, in the western Esh-Sha'rawiyeh administrative region, north of Nablus.[14]

In 1870 Victor Guérin found here a village with 600 inhabitants.[15] He further noted: "Here I found, just as at Jett, an ancient capital hollowed out to make a mortar, and used for the same purpose. A very good well, constructed of cut stone, seems ancient."[16]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as: "a good-sized village on high ground at the edge of the plain. It is surrounded with fig-gardens, and has olives to the south. It would appear to be an ancient place, having tombs to the east. The supply is principally from wells, but there is a small spring ('Ain esh Shabutbut) on the south-west. [..] Two sacred places exist to the south side of the village."[17]

British Mandate era[]

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Zeita had a population of 1,087, all Muslims,[18] increasing in the 1931 census to 1,165 persons, all Muslim, living in 237 houses.[19]

In the 1945 statistics the population of Zeita was 1,780 Muslims,[20] with 6,410 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.[21] 782 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 5,120 used for cereals,[22] while 33 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[23]

  • Zeita 1942 1:20,000

  • Zeita 1945 1:250,000

Jordanian era[]

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Zeita came under Jordanian rule, together with the rest of the West Bank.

In 1961, the population was 1,814 persons.[24]

Post-1967[]

After the Six-Day War in 1967, Zeita has been under Israeli occupation.

References[]

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 196
  2. ^ 2007 PCBS census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). p. 107.
  3. ^ Palestinian Population by Locality and Refugee Status Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  4. ^ Health care Facilities Tulkarm Governorate
  5. ^ Dauphin, 1998, p. 756
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Zertal, 2016, pp. 390-391
  7. ^ Ibn al-Furat, 1971, pp. 80, 210, 249 (map)
  8. ^ Petersen, 2005, p. 131
  9. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 137
  10. ^ Palestine Exploration Quarterly Jan-Apr 1944. Jacotin's Map of Palestine. D.H.Kellner. p. 161
  11. ^ Karmon, 1960, p. 170
  12. ^ Jump up to: a b Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp. 135–136
  13. ^ Macalister and Masterman, 1906, p. 39
  14. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd Appendix, p. 129
  15. ^ Guérin, 1875, p. 346
  16. ^ Guérin, 1875, p. 346; as translated by Conder and Kitchener, 1882, p. 153
  17. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, p. 153
  18. ^ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Tulkarm, p. 27
  19. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 58
  20. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 22
  21. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 77
  22. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 128
  23. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 178
  24. ^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 27

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