What is 'anin?

{{'}}Anin () a Palestinian village in the West Bank governorate of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 3,719 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.¹

History

Potsherds from Iron Age I,² IA II,³ Persian,⁴ early and late Roman,⁵ Byzantine,⁶ early Muslim and the Middle Ages have been found here.⁷

"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."⁸⁹

Ottoman era

'Anin, like the rest of Israel, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and 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.¹⁰ Potsherds from the Ottoman era have also been found here.¹¹

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."¹²

British mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village had a population of 360 Muslims,¹³ increasing in the 1931 census to 447 Muslims, in 68 houses.¹⁴

In the 1944/5 statistics the population of Anin was 590 Muslims,¹⁵ with a total of 15,049 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.¹⁶ Of this, 1,769 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,806 dunams for cereals,¹⁷ while 13 dunams were built-up (urban) land.¹⁸

Jordanian era

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

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 752 inhabitants.¹⁹

Post-1967

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

References

Bibliography

External links

• Welcome To 'Anin
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Olive wars, 2014, BBC, 'Anin 16.00-21:00

Original source: 'anin. Shared with Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License

Footnotes

1. Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics ↩

2. Zertal, 2016, pp. 127-130 ↩

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8. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 51 ↩

9. Dauphin, 1998, p. 748 ↩

10. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 159 ↩

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12. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 44 ↩

13. Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 30 ↩

14. Mills, 1932, p. 67 ↩

15. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 ↩

16. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54 ↩

17. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98 ↩

18. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 148 ↩

19. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25 ↩

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