'Anin

'Anin Arabic Arabic عانين Municipality type D (Village council) Anin2012.JPG Palestine Location of 'Anin within Palestine 32 30 05 N 35 10 04 E region:PS inline,title Palestine grid 165/211 State State of Palestine Governorate Jenin Founded Village council dunam 4,216 2017 auto Name meaning from personal name, or possibly from fountainPalmer, 1881, p. 143 Anin (ar 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.https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Downloads/book2364-1.pdf Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census 2017 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics February 2018 May 19, 2023 64 History Beth-Anath Potsherds from Iron Age I,Zertal, 2016, pp. 127-130 IA II, Persian, early and late Roman, Byzantine, early Muslim and the Middle Ages have been found here. "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."Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 51Dauphin, 1998, p. 748 The Reḥov mosaic inscription from the Byzantine period lists 'Ananin (עננין) among the Jewish settlements of the Sebaste district, whose inhabitants were exempt from agricultural laws governing produce because of the territory’s ambiguous status.Marom Roy Roy Marom Amitai-Preiss Nitzan Early Islamic Rural Administration and Toponymy in Kūrat Qaysārīyah: New Evidence of Umayyad Lead Bullae Israel Numismatic Research 25 2026 318 Ottoman era 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.al-Bakhīt Muḥammad ʻAdnān al-Ḥamūd Nūfān Rajā Daftar mufaṣṣal nāḥiyat Marj Banī ʻĀmir wa-tawābiʻihā wa-lawāḥiqihā allatī kānat fī taṣarruf al-Amīr Ṭarah Bāy sanat 945 ah https://www.worldcat.org/title/28579982 2023-05-15 www.worldcat.org Jordanian University 1–35 en Amman 1989Marom Roy Marom Tepper Adams Matthew J Lajjun: Forgotten Provincial Capital in Ottoman Palestine https://escholarship.org/content/qt0xr5x18n/qt0xr5x18n.pdf?t=rue2ap Levant 2023 55 2 218–241 10.1080/00758914.2023.2202484 258602184 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.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 159 Potsherds from the Ottoman era have also been found here. In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya of Shafa al-Gharby.Grossman David Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine Magnes Press 2004 Jerusalem 257 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."Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 44 British mandate era In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village had a population of 360 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 30 increasing in the 1931 census to 447 Muslims, in 68 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 67 In the 1944/5 statistics the population of Anin was 590 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 https://web.archive.org/web/20180905203337/http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p16.jpg 2018-09-05 with a total of 15,049 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54 Of this, 1,769 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,806 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98 while 13 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 148 Jordanian era After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, 'Anin came under Jordanian rule. The Jordanian census of 1961 found 752 inhabitants.Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25 Post-1967 'Anin has been under Israeli control along with the rest of the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War. References 25em Bibliography Barron, J.B. Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 https://archive.org/details/PalestineCensus1922 Government of Palestine 1923 Conder C.R. Claude Reignier Conder Kitchener H.H. Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener 1882 https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp02conduoft The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology London Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund 2 Dauphin C. Claudine Dauphin La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations https://books.google.com/books?id=FC1mAAAAMAAJ III : Catalogue BAR International Series 726 1998 Archeopress Oxford fr 0-860549-05-4 First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics 1964 http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensus1961bits.pdf Village Statistics, April, 1945 http://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/Hebrew/library/Pages/BookReader.aspx?pid=856390 Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics 1945 Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html S. Hadawi Sami Hadawi 1970 Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center Hütteroth W.-D. Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth K. Abdulfattah Kamal Abdulfattah Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century https://books.google.com/books?id=wqULAAAAIAAJ 1977 Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft 3-920405-41-2 Mills, E. Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas Government of Palestine Jerusalem 1932 Palmer E.H. Edward Henry Palmer 1881 https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp00conduoft 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 Zertal A. Adam Zertal https://books.google.com/books?id=XytzCwAAQBAJ The Manasseh Hill Country Survey 3 Boston BRILL 2016 978-9004312302 External links Welcome To 'Anin Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: IAA, Wikimedia commons Olive wars, 2014, BBC, 'Anin 16.00-21:00 A Category:Villages in the West Bank Category:Jenin Governorate Category:Municipalities of Palestine