Beit Iba

Beit Iba (Arabic: بيت إيبا‎) is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the North central West Bank, located 7 kilometers northwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the village had a population of 3,268 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.[2]

Beit Iba
Municipality type C
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicبيت إيبا
 • LatinBayt Iba (unofficial)
Beit Iba
Beit Iba
Location of Beit Iba within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°14′10″N 35°12′35″E
Palestine grid169/182
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateNablus
Government
 • TypeMunicipality
Population
 (2006)
 • Total3,268
Name meaningThe house of Iba[1]

Location

Beit Iba is located 5.13 kilometers (3.19 mi) west of Nablus. It is bordered by Nablus and Beit Wazan to the east, An-Naqura and Zawata to the north, Deir Sharaf and Qusin to the west, and Sarra and Beit Wazan to the south.[3]

History

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[4]

Ottoman era

In 1517, the village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine, and in 1596, Beit Iba appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in nahiya (subdistrict) of Jabal Qubal under the liwa' (district) of Nablus. It had a population of 20 households, all Muslims. They paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and/or beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a tax on people in the Nablus district; a total of 9,000 akçe. Half to the revenue went to a Waqf.[5]

In 1838, in the Biblical Researches in Palestine, Beit Iba was located in the District of Jurat 'Amra, south of Nablus.[6][7]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Beit Iba as: "A village of moderate size in low ground, with olives; it is of mud and stone, with a good spring ('Aines Subian); to the north. The olive groves in the valley are very fine and ancient; here and there is a small mill, and in spring a stream of water.[8]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Beit Iba had a population of 456; all Muslims,[9] increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 470 Muslims, in a total of 121 houses.[10]

In the 1945 statistics, the population was 630, all Muslims,[11] with 5,063 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[12] Of this, 762 dunams were for plantations or irrigated land, 3,368 for cereals,[13] while 41 dunams were built-up land.[14]

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War Beit Iba came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,069 inhabitants in Beit Iba.[15]

1967 and aftermath

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Beit Iba has been under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 45% of the village land is defined as being in Area A, 34% is Area B, while the remaining 21% Area C.[16]

References
  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 180
  2. Projected Mid -Year Population for Nablus Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  3. Beit Iba Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 4
  4. Dauphin, 1998, p. 771
  5. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 132
  6. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 127
  7. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 137
  8. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 162
  9. Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 24
  10. Mills, 1923, p. 60.
  11. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 18.
  12. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 59.
  13. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 105.
  14. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 155.
  15. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25
  16. Beit Iba Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 15

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