’Arrana ( ar, عرّانه) is a Palestinian village in the

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, located 4 kilometers Northeast of

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, in the northern West Bank. According to the

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, the village had a population of 2,144 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.

History

It has been suggested that this was ''Aaruna'' in the list of places conquered by Thutmose III.Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, pp
82
83 Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.

Ottoman era

Arranah, like the rest of

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, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village appeared as Arrana'', located in the '' nahiya'' of ''Sara'' in the ''

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'' of Lajjun. It had a population of 17 households, all

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. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25 % on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 9,000

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. In 1838, it was noted as a village in the Jenin district. In 1870, Victor Guérin noted it on a small hilltop. In 1882, the

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's '' Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described ''Arraneh'' as: "A small village, principally of

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, with a few stone houses, standing in the plain, surrounded by olive-yards. It is supplied with water from

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s. A '' kubbeh'' exists about 1/4 mile north of the village."

British Mandate era

In the

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, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village had a population of 216 Muslims, increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 267 Muslims, in 46 households. In 1944/5 statistics the population was 320, all Muslim,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p
16
with a total of 7,866

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s of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 13 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 6,460 dunams for cereals, while 10 dunams were built-up (urban) land.

Jordanian era

After the

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and the

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. The Jordanian census of 1961 found 539 inhabitants.Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p
25
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Post-1967

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Arranah has been under

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Footnotes

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External links

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