Palestinian
Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine.
*: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...
village in the
Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate
The Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate () is one of 16 governorates of Palestine. It covers a large part of the central West Bank, on the northern border of the Jerusalem Governorate. Its district capital or ''muhfaza'' (seat) is the city of ...
. It was founded after the 16th century.Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 356 It is mentioned in text from 1697.
Location
Jibiya is located north of
Ramallah
Ramallah ( , ; ) is a Palestinians, Palestinian city in the central West Bank, that serves as the administrative capital of the State of Palestine. It is situated on the Judaean Mountains, north of Jerusalem, at an average elevation of abov ...
. It is bordered by
Burham
Burham is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England. According to the 2001 census, it had a population of 1,251, decreasing to 1,195 at the 2011 Census. The village is near the Medway towns.
The histor ...
to the east,
Umm Safa
Umm Safa/Kafr Ishwa () or Um Al-Safa is a Palestinians, Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate.
Location
Umm Safa is located north of Ramallah. It is bordered by 'Ajjul and 'Atara to the east, Deir as Sudan and Ajjul t ...
the east, north and west, and
Kobar
Kobar () is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank. Kobar is located at an altitude of above sea level with a mean annual rainfall of 669.8 mm. The average annual ...
to the west and south.
History
Pottery
sherd
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Hellenistic
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,
Byzantine
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, and
Umayyad
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Abbasid
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eras have been found here.Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 399
It has been suggested that this was ''Geba'' in the
Onomasticon
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*Onomasticon (Eusebius)
*Onomasticon of Amenope
*Onomasticon of Joan Coromines
*Onomasticon of Julius Pollux
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,Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p 290 /ref> and the
Crusader
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place called ''Gebea'', but both these identifications have now been discarded.
Pottery sherds from the
Mamluk
Mamluk or Mamaluk (; (singular), , ''mamālīk'' (plural); translated as "one who is owned", meaning "slave") were non-Arab, ethnically diverse (mostly Turkic, Caucasian, Eastern and Southeastern European) enslaved mercenaries, slave-so ...
era have also been found here.
Ottoman era
Pottery sherds from the early Ottoman era have been found here. The village's historical core, comprising eight buildings arranged around a series of stone-paved courtyards, is not inhabited anymore. Three pillars were found here.
Jibiya was founded after the 16th century. In the spring of 1697,
Henry Maundrell
Henry Maundrell (1665–1701) was an academic at Oxford University and later a Church of England clergyman, who served from 20 December 1695 as chaplain to the Levant Company in Syria. His ''Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697'' ...
noted two "Arab villages," first "Geeb" and then "Selwid," both on the west side of the road on the way south from Nablus to Jerusalem.Maundrell, 1703, p 63 March 25, 1697Edward Robinson identified these two villages as Jibiya and
Silwad
Silwad () is a Palestinian territories, Palestinian town located north-east of Ramallah, about 5 km away from the Nablus-Jerusalem highway of the West Bank, in the State of Palestine. Silwad's altitude is about 851 meters above sea level. Ac ...
.Robinson and Smith,1841, vol 3, pp 80 81
In 1838 ''Jibia'' was noted as a
Muslim
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village in the ''Beni Zaid'' district, north of Jerusalem.
In 1863
Victor Guérin
Victor Guérin (; 15 September 1821 – 21 September 1890) was a French people, French intellectual, explorer and amateur archaeologist. He published books describing the geography, archeology and history of the areas he explored, which included ...
noted it as a small village, with a
shrine
A shrine ( "case or chest for books or papers"; Old French: ''escrin'' "box or case") is a sacred space">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ...: ''escri ...
, dedicated to a
Sheikh
Sheikh ( , , , , ''shuyūkh'' ) is an honorific title in the Arabic language, literally meaning "elder (administrative title), elder". It commonly designates a tribal chief or a Muslim ulama, scholar. Though this title generally refers to me ...
''Baiezed''.
An official Ottoman village list from about 1870, listed ''Dschibija'' as having 12 houses and a population of 39, 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 completed Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) and in 1880 for the soon abandoned Survey of Eastern Palestine. The ...
'' (SWP) described Jibia as "a small village on high ground, with olives below."
In 1896 the population of ''Dschibja'' was estimated to be about 84 persons.
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 divis ...
conducted by the British Mandate authorities, ''Jebia'' had a population of 62 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramallah, p. 16 /ref> increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 63, in 17 houses.Mills, 1932, p 49
In 1945 statistics, the population was 90, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p 26 /ref> while the total land area was 1,666
dunam
A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; ; ; ), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area analogous in role (but not equal) to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amo ...
s, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 100 were plantations and irrigable land, 815 for cereals, while 4 dunams were classified as built-up areas.
Jordanian era
In the wake of the
1948 Arab–Israeli War
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, and after the
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, Jibiya has been under
Israeli occupation
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.
After the 1995 accords, 51.4% of village land is defined as Area B land, while the remaining 48.6% is defined as
Area C
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. Israel has confiscated land from Jibiya in order to construct Israeli bypass roads 4 and 566, to
Israeli settlements
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Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem
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