Kafr Ni'ma

Kafr Ni'ma ( ar, كفر نعمة) is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 13 kilometers northwest of Ramallah in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 3,750 inhabitants in 2007.

Location

Kafr Ni'ma is located in the Ramallah Governorate, west of Ramallah. Kafr Ni'ma is bordered by Deir Ibzi and Al Janiya to the east, Ras Karkar and Kharbatha Ban'i Harith to the north, Saffa and Bil'in to the west, and Deir Ibzi and Saffa to the south.

History

Sherds from the Iron Age II, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Mamluk eras have been found here.

Ottoman era

Kafr Ni'ma was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as being in the ''nahiya'' (subdistrict) of al-Quds (Jerusalem) in the ''liwa'' (district) of al-Quds. It had a population of 9 households,Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 120 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 4,100 akçe. 13/24 of the revenue went to a waqf (religious endowment), the rest was ziamet land.

In 1838, ''Kefr Na'meh'' was noted as a Muslim village in the District of Beni Harith, north of Jerusalem.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p
124
/ref> An Ottoman village list of about 1870 counted a population of 353 in 88 houses, though the population count included men only.

In 1882, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' described ''Kefr Nameh'' as: "a village of smaller size with a well to the south, on the side of hill, with olives."Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p
295
/ref> In 1896 the population of ''Kefr Na'me'' was estimated to be about 657 persons.

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village, called ''Kufr Ne'meh,'' had a population of 517, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramallah, p.
17
/ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 681 inhabitants, in 170 houses.Mills, 1932,
50
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In the 1945 statistics the population was 780 Muslims, while the total land area was 10,286 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 5,363 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 2,148 for cereals, while 31 dunams were classified as built-up areas.

File:Bil'in 1944.jpg, Kafr Ni'ma 1944 1:20,000 from 1919 survey
File:Burj 1945.jpg, Kafr Ni'ma 1945 1:250,000 (top right quadrant)

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,065 inhabitants in Kafr Ni'ma.

1967-present

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Kafr Ni'ma has been under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 70.2% of Kafr Nima land is defined as Area B land, while the remaining 29.8% is defined as Area C.Kafr Ni’ma Village profile
ARIJ, p. 16

Notable people

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External links

Welcome To Kafr Ni'maKafr Ni’ma
Welcome to Palestine
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14:
IAA Wikimedia commonsKafr Ni’ma Village (fact sheet)
Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ)
Kafr Ni’ma Village profile
ARIJ
Kafr Ni’ma aerial photo
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{{Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate

Villages in the West Bank
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Municipalities of the State of Palestine