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 ...
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 ...
. According to the
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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statistical institution of the State of Palestine. Its main task is to provide credible statistical figures ...
(PCBS), the town had a population of 2,787 inhabitants in 2007.
About two km east of Kafr Malik, at Ain Samiya'' (grid: 1817/1550), is a
Roman
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
mill, and buildings, possibly dating to the
Crusader era
The Crusader States, also known as Outremer, were four Catholic realms in the Middle East that lasted from 1098 to 1291. These feudal polities were created by the Latin Catholic leaders of the First Crusade through conquest and political in ...
.
Kafr Malik has been identified with the village ''Caphermelic'' of the Crusader period.
Ottoman era
Kafr Malik was incorporated into the
Ottoman Empire
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in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as being 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 Al-Quds in the '' liwa'' of Al-Quds. It had a population of 21 household;Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 114 who were all Muslims. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 33,3 % on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, olive trees, vineyards, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 7,750 akçe.
In 1838, ‘’Kefr Malik’’ was noted as a Muslim village in the District of ''Beni Salim,'' east of Jerusalem.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 125 /ref>
In 1870,
Victor Guérin
Victor Guérin (15 September 1821 – 21 Septembe 1890) was a French intellectual, explorer and amateur archaeologist. He published books describing the geography, archeology and history of the areas he explored, which included Greece, Asia Min ...
found Kafr Malik to have 350 inhabitants, some thirty Catholics and fifteen "schismatic Greek"; the others were Muslim. In the courtyard of the ''medhafeh'', or guesthouse, he was shown several beautiful stone plaques and three sections of columns and several capitals of the Doric form belonging to an old edifice long since destroyed.
An Ottoman village list of about 1870 counted a population of 416 Muslims in 77 houses, and 15 Christians in 6 houses. In total 432 persons in 83 houses, though the population count included men, only.
In 1882, the PEF's ''
Survey of Western Palestine
The PEF Survey of Palestine was a series of surveys carried out by the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) between 1872 and 1877 for the Survey of Western Palestine and in 1880 for the Survey of Eastern Palestine. The survey was carried out after the ...
'' described ''Kefr Malik'' as: "a village of moderate size on high ground."Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p 292 /ref>
In 1896 the population of ''Kefr Malik'' was estimated to be about 870 persons.
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village, called ''Kufr Malek,'' had a population of 943, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramallah, p. 17 /ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 972; 922 Muslims and 20 Christians, in 217 houses.Mills, 1932, 50 /ref>
In the 1945 statistics the population was 1,100; 1,080 Muslims and 20 Christians, while the total land area was 52,196 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 3,580 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 10,984 for cereals, while 53 dunams were classified as built-up areas.
1949 Armistice Agreements
The 1949 Armistice Agreements were signed between Israel and Egypt,Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,346 inhabitants in Kafr Malik.
1967-present
Since the
Six-Day War
The Six-Day War (, ; ar, النكسة, , or ) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 Ju ...
in 1967, Kafr Malik has been under
Israeli occupation
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.
After the 1995 accords, 12,7% of Kafr Malik land is defined as
Area B
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Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem
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