Kafr Ni'ma

Kafr Ni'ma (Arabic: 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.[3]

Kafr Ni'ma
Municipality type C
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicكفر نعمة
Kafr Ni'ma
Kafr Ni'ma
Location of Kafr Ni'ma within Palestine
Coordinates: 31°55′39″N 35°05′43″E
Palestine grid159/148
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateRamallah and al-Bireh
Government
 • TypeMunicipality
Elevation494 m (1,621 ft)
Population
 (2007)
 • Total3,750
Name meaningThe village of Namah, (personal name)[2]

Location

Kafr Ni'ma is located in the Ramallah Governorate, 10.3 kilometers (6.4 mi) 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.[1]

History

Sherds from the Iron Age II, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Mamluk eras have been found here.[4]

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,[5] 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.[5]

In 1838, Kefr Na'meh was noted as a Muslim village in the District of Beni Harith, north of Jerusalem.[6] An Ottoman village list of about 1870 counted a population of 353 in 88 houses, though the population count included men only.[7][8]

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."[9] In 1896 the population of Kefr Na'me was estimated to be about 657 persons.[10]

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,[11] increasing in the 1931 census to 681 inhabitants, in 170 houses.[12]

In the 1945 statistics the population was 780 Muslims,[13] while the total land area was 10,286 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[14] Of this, 5,363 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 2,148 for cereals,[15] while 31 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[16]

  • Kafr Ni'ma 1944 1:20,000 from 1919 survey
  • 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, Kafr Ni'ma came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,065 inhabitants in Kafr Ni'ma.[17]

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.[18]

References
  1. Kafr Ni’ma Village profile, ARIJ, p. 4
  2. Palmer, 1881, p. 230
  3. 2007 PCBS Census Archived 2010-12-10 at the Wayback Machine. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.113.
  4. Finkelstein, 1997, pp. 167–168
  5. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 120
  6. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 124
  7. Socin, 1879, p. 156 also noted it was located in the Beni Harit District
  8. Hartmann, 1883, p. 125, also noted 88 houses
  9. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 295
  10. Schick, 1896, pp. 122, 124
  11. Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramallah, p. 17
  12. Mills, 1932, p.50
  13. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 26
  14. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 65
  15. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 112
  16. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 162
  17. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 24
  18. Kafr Ni’ma Village profileARIJ, p. 16

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