Yatma
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Yatma (Template:Langx) is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 15 kilometers south of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 3,363 inhabitants in 2017.[1]
Location
Yatma is located 12.4 km south of Nablus. It is bordered by Qabalan to the east and south, Beita to the north, Yasuf and As Sawiya to the west.[2]
History
Pottery sherds from the Iron Age II, Persian, Hellenistic/Roman and the Crusader/Ayyubid eras have been found here.[3]
It has been suggested that this was the place of origin of Dosthai of Kefar Iathma who is mentioned in the Mishnah as a disciple of the House of Shammai,[4][5] and that it was the Eincheitem of the Crusader period.[3]
Sherds from the Mamluk era has also been found here.[3]
Ottoman era
In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and in the 1596 tax-records it appeared as Yitma, located in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal of the Liwa of Nablus. The population was 10 households and 2 bachelors, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, a press for olive oil or grape syrup, in addition to occasional revenues and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 1,800 akçe.[6] Sherds from the early Ottoman era have also been found here.[3]
In 1838, Edward Robinson noted it as part of Jurat Merda District, south of Nablus.[7][8]
In 1850/1 de Saulcy noted Yatma on his travels in the region,[9] as did Victor Guérin in 1870.[10]
In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Jamma'in al-Thani, subordinate to Nablus.[11]
In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine Yetma was described as "A little village, on high ground, with olives round it."[12]
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Yatma had a population of 242 Muslims,[13] increasing in the 1931 census to 325 Muslims, in 64 houses.[14]
In the 1945 statistics the population was 440 Muslims[15] while the total land area was 3,777 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[16] Of this, 1,214 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,741 for cereals,[17] while 44 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[18]
Jordanian era
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Yatma came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 618 inhabitants.[19]
Post 1967
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After the 1995 accords, 29% of village land is defined as Area B land, while the remaining 71% is defined as Area C land. Israel has also confiscated village land for Israeli bypass roads.[21]
In 2011, two cars were set ablaze in Yatma and the village mosque was vandalised with Hebrew graffiti, reading "price tag" and "Migron", in what was assumed to be a price tag attack by Israeli settlers.[22][23]
References
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- ↑ Yatma Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 4
- ↑ a b c d Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 639
- ↑ Mishnah, Orlah, 2:5
- ↑ Neubauer, 1868, pp. 268-269
- ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 136
- ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, Appendix 2, p. 127
- ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, p. 92
- ↑ Saulcy, 1854, vol 1, p. 103
- ↑ Guérin, 1875, p. 163
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- ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 287
- ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, p. 25
- ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 66
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 19
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 61
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 108
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 158
- ↑ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25
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- ↑ Yatma Village Profile, ARIJ, pp. 15-17
- ↑ Second West Bank Mosque Vandalized, Settlers Blamed, 8 September 2011
- ↑ Quamar Mishirqi-Asad,'High ‘Price Tag’ in the Mosque of the Village Yatma,' in Rabbis for Human Rights, 13 September 2011. Template:Webarchive
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External links
- Welcome to Yatma
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Yatma Village Profile, Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ)
- Yatma, aerial photo, ARIJ
- Development Priorities and Needs in Yatma, ARIJ
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