Talfit
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| Talfit | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | تلفيت |
 Talfit
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| Palestine grid | 177/165 |
| Governorate | Nablus |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| • Head of Municipality | Raed Ershed |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 2,824 |
Talfit (Arabic: تلفيت)[1] is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank, located 21 kilometers southeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, it had a population of 2,824 in 2007.[2]
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History
Potsherds from the IA II, Persian, Byzantine/Ayyubid, Mamluk and early Ottoman period have been found.[3] Röhricht suggested identifying Talfit with Tarphin, mentioned in a Crusader text from 1154,[4] but a later author (Abel) preferred to locate it at Kh. Tarfein to the north of Bir Zeit.[5] According to Finkelstein, Kh. Tarfein better fits the archaeological finds.[3]
Ottoman era
In 1596, Talfit appeared in Ottoman tax registers as a village in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal in the Liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 12 Muslim households and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summercrops, olives, and goats or beehives.[6]
The Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine noted in 1882 that the place resembled Kabalan, described as a village of moderate size, on high ground, surrounded by olive-trees. Talfit was supplied with water from a well called Ain Telfit.[7]
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Talfit had a population of 352, all Muslims,[8] increasing in the 1931 census to 464, still all Muslim, in 116 occupied houses.[9]
In 1945 Telfit had a population of 610, all Muslims,[10] with 6,258 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[11] Of this, 3,309 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,228 used for cereals,[12] while 49 dunams were built-up land.[13]
1948-1967
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Talfit came under Jordanian rule.
1967-present
After the Six-Day War in 1967, Talfit has been under Israeli occupation
References
- ↑ Palmer, 1881 p. 245
- ↑ 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p. 110.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 655
- ↑ Röhricht, 1887, p. 213
- ↑ Abel, 1928:52, cited in Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 655
- ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 133
- ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 288
- ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 25
- ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 65
- ↑ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 19
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 61
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 108
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 158
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External links
- Welcome To Talfit
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Talfit Village Profile, ARIJ
- Talfit, areal photo, ARIJ
