Jalamah

Jalamah (Arabic: جلمه‎) or Jalameh is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 5 km north of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,304 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.[2]

This article is about the village in Jenin Governorate, Palestine. For other places with a similar name, see Al-Jalama.
Jalamah
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicجلمه
 • Latinal-Jalama (official)
Jalamah
Location of Jalamah within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°30′31″N 35°18′48″E
Palestine grid179/212
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateJenin
Government
 • TypeVillage council
Population
 (2006)
 • Total2,304
Name meaningthe hill[1]

History

It has been suggested that this was Jiliimna in the list of places conquered by Thutmose III.[3]

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[4]

Ottoman era

Jalamah, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village appeared as Jalama, located in the nahiya of Sara in the liwa of Lajjun. It had a population of 16 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25 % on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 8,000 akçe.[5]

In 1838, it was noted as a village in the Jenin district.[6][7]

In 1870, Victor Guérin noted the village on a hill, which sides had cisterns carved into rock and silos. He estimated the village to have 200 inhabitants, and also noted a kubbeh for a local saint.[8]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Jelameh as: "Resembles Jabbul. It stands in the plain, surrounded with arable land, and is supplied by cisterns. It has a kubbeh on the north side."[9]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jalameh had a population of 261; 253 Muslims and 8 Christians,[10] where the Christians were all Orthodox.[11] The population increased in the 1931 census to 304; 300 Muslims and 4 Christians, in a total of 68 houses.[12]

In the 1944/5 statistics the population of Jalama was 460, all Muslims,[13] with 5,827 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[14] Of this, 86 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 4,777 for cereals,[15] while 15 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[16]

Jordanian era

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

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 784 inhabitants here.[17]

Post-1967

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

See also

Footnotes
  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 161
  2. Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Archived 2008-09-20 at the Wayback Machine Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  3. Conder, 1876, p. 147
  4. Dauphin, 1988, p. 744
  5. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 161
  6. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd app. p. 130
  7. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp. 161,167
  8. Guérin, 1874, pp. 326 - 327
  9. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 84
  10. Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
  11. Barron, 1923, Table XV, p. 47
  12. Mills, 1932, p. 68
  13. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 Archived 2018-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
  14. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54
  15. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98
  16. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 148
  17. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25

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