Ramin () is a
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 northeastern
West Bank
The West Bank is located on the western bank of the Jordan River and is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip) that make up the State of Palestine. A landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...
, located 15 kilometers east of
Tulkarm
Tulkarm or Tulkarem (, ''Ṭūlkarm'') is a Palestinians, Palestinian city in the West Bank, the capital of the Tulkarm Governorate of the State of Palestine. The Israeli city of Netanya is to the west, and the Palestinian territories, Palestinia ...
in the
Tulkarm Governorate
The Tulkarm Governorate () is an administrative district and one of the 16 Governorates of Palestine, located in the north-western West Bank. The governorate's land area is 268 square kilometres. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau o ...
of the
State of Palestine
Palestine, officially the State of Palestine, is a country in West Asia. Recognized by International recognition of Palestine, 147 of the UN's 193 member states, it encompasses the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and th ...
. According to the
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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, the village had a population of approximately 1,998 in 2017.
History
Ceramics from the early
[Zertal, 2004, pp]
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/ref> and late Roman
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,[Dauphin, 1998, p. 764] Byzantine
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[ early Moslem,][ and Medieval][ eras have been found here.
During the early Crusader era, Daniel the Traveller reported that he saw a church here, identified by local Christians as the burial place of ]Joseph of Arimathea
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.[ Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn (1173-1245) reported that there were Muslims living in Ramin during his lifetime.
]
Ottoman era
Ramin, like all of Palestine
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was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire
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in 1517. In the 1596 tax registers, it was part of the ''nahiya
A nāḥiyah ( , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiyeh, 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 divisi ...
'' ("subdistrict") of Jabal Sami, part of the larger Sanjak of Nablus
The Nablus Sanjak (; ) 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 of Syria Vilayet and then the Beirut Vilaye ...
. It had a population of 9 households, all Muslim
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s. The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 4,930 akçe
The ''akçe'' or ''akça'' (anglicized as ''akche'', ''akcheh'' or ''aqcha''; ; , , in Europe known as '' asper'') was a silver coin mainly known for being the chief monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire. It was also used in other states includi ...
.
In 1838, Edward Robinson noted it on his travels in the region, and placed it in the ''Wady esh-Sha'ir'' administrative region, west of Nablus
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.[Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd Appendix, p.]
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/ref> In 1870, Victor Guérin
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described it as a village situated on a high hill with 700 inhabitants. He further noted that the small square in front of the ''madafeh'' (guest house) was paved with large slabs of an ancient appearance.
In 1882, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine
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'' (SWP) described Ramin as "a village of moderate size, on a hill, with a second knoll to the east, whence its name. It has a few olives beneath it."[Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p]
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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, Ramin had a population of 320 Muslims,[Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Tulkarm, p]
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/ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 423 Muslims, living in 113 houses.[Mills, 1932, p]
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In the 1945 statistics the population of Ramin was 630 Muslims,[Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p]
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/ref> who owned 8,868 dunam
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s of land according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 745 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 2,575 were used for cereals, while 14 dunams were built-up (urban) land.
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,[Jordan
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ian rule.
In 1961, the population of Ramin was 864.
Post 1967
Since the Six-Day War
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in 1967, Ramin has been under Israeli occupation
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, and according to the Israeli census of that year, the population of ''Ramin'' stood at 818, of whom 8 were registered as being refugees from Israel.
Ramin's population is made up of the families of Salman (30%), Zafer (24%), Hamad (22%) and Zeiden (24%).
Ramin's total land area is about 8,500 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, of which 422 dunums is built-up area, about 500 dunams for quarries and 500 dunams for pastures. 470 dunams have been confiscated for the Israeli settlement
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of Enav
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, and for other Israeli causes (such as bypass roads, military positions). Ramin's remaining land is covered by olive and almond orchards. Israeli settlers set fire to agricultural lands in Ramin village
Land Research Center. 14 June 2007
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