Zububa

Municipality type D in Jenin, State of Palestine

32°32′44″N 35°13′25″E / 32.54556°N 35.22361°E / 32.54556; 35.22361Palestine grid170/216StateState of PalestineGovernorateJeninGovernment

• TypeVillage councilPopulation

• Total2,322Name meaningeither from "raisins", or from "dried up"^[1]

Zububa (Arabic: زبوبا) is the northernmost Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 10 km Northwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had an estimated population of 2322 inhabitants in .^[2]

History

This place is marked under the name Sububa on the map of Marino Sanuto (1322 A.D.), and identified by him with Megiddo.^[3]^[4]

Ottoman era

In 1838 it was noted as a Muslim village called Ezbuba in the Jenin administrative region.^[5]

In 1870, Victor Guérin noted it in the distance, as a small village on an oblong mound.^[6]

In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya of Shafa al-Gharby.^[7]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Ezbuba: "A village of mud, of moderate size, with wells and cisterns. It stands near the foot of the hills, and is probably an ancient site, having a sarcophagus, and a wine-press to the south."^[4]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Zebuba had a population 391 Muslims,^[8] decreasing in the 1931 census to 344 Muslim, in a total of 83 houses.^[9]

In the 1945 statistics, the population was 560 Muslims,^[10] with 13,843 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.^[11] Of this, 209 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 13,054 dunams were for cereals,^[12] while a total of 16 dunams were built-up, urban land.^[13]

Jordanian era

Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and the subsequent 1949 Armistice Agreements, Zububa came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 683 inhabitants.^[14]

Israeli era

Since the 1967 Six-Day War, Zububa has been under Israeli rull In early 1980s, the town became governed by the Israeli Civil Administration system.

With the Oslo Accords, the town came under the direct control of the Palestinian National Authority in 1994.^[15]

Demography

Local origins

Some residents of Zububa originated from Rammun and Ya'bad, but the majority have origins in Silat al-Harithiya.^[16]

References

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 146
^ "Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments: Census 2017" (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
^ Conder, 1878, p. 129
^ ^a ^b Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 44
^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 131
^ Guérin, 1875, p. 230
^ Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 256.
^ Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 30
^ Mills, 1932, p. 72
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 17
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 55
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 100
^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 150
^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25
^ B'Tselem Interactive Map https://www.btselem.org/map
^ Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 346

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Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics (1964). First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population (PDF).
Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
Guérin, V. (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
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