Palestinian
Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...
village in the
Jenin Governorate
The Jenin Governorate ( ar, محافظة جنين, Muḥāfaẓat Ǧanīn) is one of 16 Governorates of Palestine. It covers the northern extremity of the West Bank, including the area around the city of Jenin.
During the first six months of th ...
in the Western area of the
West Bank
The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...
, located 15 kilometers Southwest of
Jenin
Jenin (; ar, ') is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank. It serves as the administrative center of the Jenin Governorate of the State of Palestine and is a major center for the surrounding towns. In 2007, Jenin had a population of app ...
. According to the
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS; ar, الجهاز المركزي للإحصاء الفلسطيني) is the official
statistical institution of the State of Palestine. Its main task is to provide credible statistical figures a ...
, the village had a population of 1,072 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.
History
Pottery sherds
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from the late
Roman
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,
Byzantine
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and early Islamic periods have been found here.Zertal, 2004, pp 271 2
According to SWP: "This place is mentioned in the
Onomasticon
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Ephraim
Ephraim (; he, ''ʾEp̄rayīm'', in pausa: ''ʾEp̄rāyīm'') was, according to the Book of Genesis, the second son of Joseph ben Jacob and Asenath. Asenath was an Ancient Egyptian woman whom Pharaoh gave to Joseph as wife, and the daughte ...
, north of Sebaste, and 4 miles from it. The distance is exact."Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p 154 /ref>
In Crusader sources it was called ''Lathara''.
In 1140, ''Ussama'', a Moslem traveller, mentioned Al-Attara together with nearby
Silat ad-Dhahr
Silat ad-Dhahr ( ar, سيلة الظهر) is a Palestinian town in the Jenin Governorate in the northern West Bank, located 22 kilometers southwest of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, the town had a ...
.
In 1178, it was attacked by
Bedouin
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, but withstood the attack.
Ottoman era
Al-Attara, like all of
Palestine
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, was incorporated into the
Ottoman Empire
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in 1517. About 10% of the pottery sherds found in the village date back to this period. In the 1596 Ottoman tax registers, Al-Attara was listed as an entirely
Muslim
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village called Attara'', and had a population of 12 families and 2 bachelors. It was located in the ''
nahiya
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Nablus
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. The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops,
olive
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trees, and goats and/or beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a tax on people from the Nablus area, a total of 5,000
akçe
The ''akçe'' or ''akça'' (also spelled ''akche'', ''akcheh''; ota, آقچه; ) refers to a silver coin which was the chief monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire. The word itself evolved from the word "silver or silver money", this word is deri ...
.
A fortress, dating from the 16th—17th century, is visible in the centre of the village.
In 1870,
Victor Guérin
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noted it as a poor village, but one which had succeed an ancient place.
In 1882, the PEF's ''
Survey of Western Palestine
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'' (SWP) described Al-Attara as "A small stone village on a spur of mountain, with a few olives and a
well
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on the west."
British Mandate era
In the
1922 census of Palestine
The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922.
The reported population was 757,182, including the military and persons of foreign nationality. The divisi ...
conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Al-Attara had a population of 164 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Tulkarm, p 27 /ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 193 Muslims, in 51 houses.Mills, 1932, 53 /ref>
In the 1945 statistics, the population of ''Al-Attara'' was 250 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p 20 /ref> with 3,844
dunam
A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; tr, dönüm; he, דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount ...
s of land according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 88 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,784 were used for cereals, while 5 dunams were built-up (urban) land.
Jordanian era
After the
1948 Arab–Israeli War
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and the
1949 Armistice Agreements
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The Jordanian census of 1961 found 388 inhabitants in Al-Attara.Government of Jordan, 1964, p 25 /ref>
Post-1967
Since the
Six-Day War
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in 1967, Al-Attara has been under
Israeli occupation
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