Palestinian
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Byzantine
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(10%), early Muslim (30%) and the Middle Ages (30%) have been found at Jarba.Zertal, 2004, pp 226227 /ref>
Ottoman era
Jarba, like all of Palestine, was incorporated into the
Ottoman Empire
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in 1517. About 30% of the pottery sherds found in the village date back to this period. In the 1596 Ottoman tax registers, it was located in the ''
nahiya
A nāḥiyah ( ar, , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division w ...
'' of Jabal Sami, part of
Sanjak of Nablus
The Nablus Sanjak ( ar, سنجق نابلس; tr, Nablus Sancağı) was an administrative area that existed throughout Ottoman rule in the Levant (1517–1917). It was administratively part of the Damascus Eyalet until 1864 when it became part o ...
. Jarba was listed as an entirely Muslim village with a population of 11 households and 2 bachelors. The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, and goats and/or beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a tax on people from the Nablus area, a total of 1,500 akçe.
In 1838 ''el-Jurba'' was noted as a village in the District of ''esh-Sha'rawiyeh esh-Shurkiyeh'', the eastern part.
In 1870,
Victor Guérin
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noted it as a small village situated on a neighboring hill from Misilyah.
In 1882 the PEF's ''
Survey of Western Palestine
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'' (SWP) described ''Jurba'' as: "a small village on the side of a slope, with olives to the south."
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jarba had a population of 31 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p 29 /ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 65 Muslim, in a total of 17 houses.Mills, 1932, p 68 /ref>
In the 1944/5 statistics the population was 100, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p 16 with 3,530 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. 100 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,553 for cereals, while 2 dunams were built-up (urban) land.
1949 Armistice Agreements
The 1949 Armistice Agreements were signed between Israel and Egypt,Jordanian rule.
post-1967
Since the
Six-Day War
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in 1967, Jarba has been under
Israeli occupation
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.
Byzantine site at Nazlat Rahal
Just southwest of Jarba is ''Nazlat Rahal'',''Kh. el Haj Rahhâl'', the ruin of el Hâj (Pilgrim) Rahhâl; according to Palmer, 1881, p. 185 /ref> where
Byzantine
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ceramics have been found. SWP found at ''Kh. Haj Rah-hal'': "traces of ruins."Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p 156 /ref>