Madama, Nablus
Madama is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate.
Madama, Nablus | |
|---|---|
| Arabic transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | مادما |
 Madama | |
  Madama, Nablus Location of Madama, Nablus within Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°11′00″N 35°14′10″E | |
| Palestine grid | 171/176 |
| State | State of Palestine |
| Governorate | Nablus |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| Name meaning | from personal name[1] |
Location
Madama is located 4.78 kilometres (3 mi) south of Nablus. It is bordered by Burin to the east, Asira al-Qibliya to the west and south, and Tell and Iraq Burin to the north.[2]
History
Ottoman era
In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and in the 1596 tax-records it was noted as Madama, located in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal, part of Nablus Sanjak. The population was 36 households, all Muslim. They 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 and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 6,250 akçe.[3]
In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Madama as: "a small hamlet in a valley."[4]
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Madama had a population of 170, all Muslims,[5] increasing in the 1931 census to 211, still all Muslims, in a total of 67 houses.[6]
In the 1945 statistics Madama had a population of 290 Muslims[7] and a total of 3,361 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[8] Of this, 162 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,943 used for cereals,[9] while 30 dunams were built-up land.[10]
Jordanian era
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Madama came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 456 inhabitants in Madama.[11]
Post-1967
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Madama has been under Israeli occupation.
After the 1995 accords, 62 % of Madama land was defined as Area B, while the remaining 32% was defined as Area C. Israel has confiscated 139 dunams of land from Madama in order to construct the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar.[12]
In May, 2017, Israeli settlers, apparently from Yitzhar, attacked a Palestinian shepherd from Madama. The Palestinian was "bleeding profusely", and was sent to a hospital in Nablus. The Israeli soldiers "fired in the air, dispersing the assailants", but none of the attackers were arrested.[13]
In April 2018, Israeli soldiers were filmed "cheering after shooting unarmed Palestinian with rubber bullets" by a roadblock by Madama.[14]
In May, 2019, it was reported that Israeli settlers from Yitzhar had started razing and levelling Palestinian-owned agricultural lands in Madama, in order to make a settler-only road.[15]
In September, 2019, settlers from Yitzhar stormed the southern part of Madama and set fire to olive trees.[16]
References
- Palmer, 1881, p. 187
- Madama Village Profile, p. 4
- Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 131
- Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 163
- Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 24
- Mills, 1932, p. 62
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 19
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 60
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 107
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 157
- Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 26
- Madama Village Profile, p. 16
- Palestinian shepherd suffers head wound in attack by Israelis in West Bank, Yotam Berger, May 27, 2017, Haaretz
- Israeli soldiers filmed cheering after shooting unarmed Palestinian with rubber bullets, 25 April 2018 The Independent
- Israeli settlers raze Palestinian lands for settler-only road, May 6, 2019, Ma'an News Agency
- Settlers Storm Madama Village, September 5, 2019
Bibliography
- Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics (1964). First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population (PDF).
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
- Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
External links
- Welcome To Madama
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Madama Village Profile, Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem, ARIJ
- Madama photo, ARIJ
- Development Priorities and Needs in Madama, ARIJ
