'Anin

Coordinates: 32°30′05″N 35°10′04″E / 32.50139°N 35.16778°E / 32.50139; 35.16778
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'Anin
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicعانين
'Anin is located in State of Palestine
'Anin
'Anin
Location of 'Anin within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°30′05″N 35°10′04″E / 32.50139°N 35.16778°E / 32.50139; 35.16778
Palestine grid165/211
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateJenin
Government
 • TypeVillage council
Population
 (2017)
 • Total4,216
Name meaningfrom personal name, or possibly from fountain[1]

'Anin (Arabic: عانين) is a Palestinian village in the West Bank governorate of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 4,216 inhabitants in 2017.[2]

History[edit]

It has been suggested than 'Anin is the site of ancient Beth Anath, or Greek: Batanaia, mentioned in Eusebius' Onomasticon and in the Tosefta.[3]

Potsherds from Iron Age I,[4] IA II,[4] Persian,[4] early and late Roman,[4] Byzantine,[4] early Muslim and the Middle Ages have been found here.[4]

"Immediately north of the village is a rock-cut passage large enough to walk along, extending about 50 feet and lined with cement; it then becomes about a foot high. This leads out on to a flat surface of rock.(...) Two rock-cut tombs, now blocked, exist west of this."[5][6]

Ottoman era[edit]

In 1517 'Anin was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine. During the 16th and 17th centuries, it belonged to the Turabay Emirate (1517-1683), which encompassed also the Jezreel Valley, Haifa, Jenin, Beit She'an Valley, northern Jabal Nablus, Bilad al-Ruha/Ramot Menashe, and the northern part of the Sharon plain.[7][8] In the census of 1596 it was a part of the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Sahil Atlit which was under the administration of the liwa ("district") of Lajjun. The village had a population of 16 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, in addition to occasional revenues and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 3,600 akçe.[9] Potsherds from the Ottoman era have also been found here.[4]

In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya of Shafa al-Gharby.[10]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Anin as: "a small village on a ridge, partly built of stone, with a small olive grove beneath it on the west, and two wells on that side. It has the appearance of an ancient site, having rock-cut tombs, and a curious channel for water."[11]

British mandate era[edit]

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village had a population of 360 Muslims,[12] increasing in the 1931 census to 447 Muslims, in 68 houses.[13]

In the 1944/5 statistics the population of Anin was 590 Muslims,[14] with a total of 15,049 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[15] Of this, 1,769 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,806 dunams for cereals,[16] while 13 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[17]

Jordanian era[edit]

After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, 'Anin came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 752 inhabitants.[18]

Post-1967[edit]

'Anin has been under Israeli control along with the rest of the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 143
  2. ^ Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (February 2018). "Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census 2017" (PDF). p. 64. Retrieved May 19, 2023.
  3. ^ Avi-Yonah, Michael (1976). "Gazetteer of Roman Palestine". Qedem. 5: 37. ISSN 0333-5844. JSTOR 43587090.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Zertal, 2016, pp. 127-130
  5. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 51
  6. ^ Dauphin, 1998, p. 748
  7. ^ al-Bakhīt, Muḥammad ʻAdnān; al-Ḥamūd, Nūfān Rajā (1989). "Daftar mufaṣṣal nāḥiyat Marj Banī ʻĀmir wa-tawābiʻihā wa-lawāḥiqihā allatī kānat fī taṣarruf al-Amīr Ṭarah Bāy sanat 945 ah". www.worldcat.org. Amman: Jordanian University. pp. 1–35. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
  8. ^ Marom, Roy; Marom, Tepper; Adams, Matthew J (2023). "Lajjun: Forgotten Provincial Capital in Ottoman Palestine" (PDF). Levant. 55 (2): 218–241. doi:10.1080/00758914.2023.2202484. S2CID 258602184.
  9. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 159
  10. ^ Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 257.
  11. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 44
  12. ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 30
  13. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 67
  14. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 Archived 2018-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54
  16. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98
  17. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 148
  18. ^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25

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