Farwana

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nameFarwana
native_nameفرونه
native_name_langar
other_nameKhirbet Farwana, Rohob, Rehob, Tel Rehov
etymologyTellûl Farwanah, the mounds of Farwannah, p.n.
pushpin_mapMandatory Palestine
pushpin_mapsize200
coordinates
grid_namePalestine grid
grid_position196/207
subdivision_typeGeopolitical entity
subdivision_nameMandatory Palestine
subdivision_type1Subdistrict
subdivision_name1Baysan
established_title1Date of depopulation
established_date111 May 1948
established_title2Repopulated dates
area_footnotes
unit_prefdunam
area_total_dunam4,996
population_as_of1945
population_total330
blank_name_sec1Cause(s) of depopulation
blank_info_sec1Military assault by Yishuv forces
blank3_name_sec1Current Localities
blank3_info_sec1 Rechov Chawwat Eden
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| name = Farwana | native_name = فرونه | native_name_lang = ar | other_name = Khirbet Farwana, Rohob, Rehob, Tel Rehov | settlement_type = | etymology = Tellûl Farwanah, the mounds of Farwannah, p.n. | pushpin_map = Mandatory Palestine | pushpin_map_caption = Location within Mandatory Palestine | image_map = | map_caption = A series of historical maps of the area around Farwana (click the buttons) | pushpin_mapsize = 200 | coordinates = | grid_name = Palestine grid | grid_position = 196/207 | subdivision_type = Geopolitical entity | subdivision_name = Mandatory Palestine | subdivision_type1 = Subdistrict | subdivision_name1 = Baysan | established_title1 = Date of depopulation | established_date1 = 11 May 1948 | established_title2 = Repopulated dates | area_footnotes = | unit_pref = dunam | area_total_dunam = 4,996 | population_as_of = 1945 | population_total = 330 | blank_name_sec1 = Cause(s) of depopulation | blank_info_sec1 = Military assault by Yishuv forces | blank3_name_sec1 = Current Localities | blank3_info_sec1 = Rechov Chawwat Eden

Farwana (), was a Palestinian village, located 4.5 km south of Bisan, depopulated in 1948.

History and archaeology

Identification and periods of settlement

The tell, or archaeological mound, of Tell es-Sarem (Arabic name) or Tel Rehov (Hebrew name) is located on the former village's lands. The tell, which stands about 800 metres southeast of the village site, has been identified with the ancient Canaanite and Israelite city of Rehov. It was one of the largest cities in the region during the Late Bronze Age (1550–1200 BCE) and Iron Age I-IIA (1200–900 BCE). During the Late Bronze Age, Egypt ruled over Canaan, and in this time period Rehov was mentioned in at least three sources dated between the 15th-13th century BCE, and again in the list of conquests of Pharaoh Shoshenq I, whose campaign took place around 925 BCE.

During the Byzantine period, a Jewish town that preserved the old name in the form of Rohob, stood one kilometre northwest of Tel Rehov, at Khirbet Farwana/Horbat Parva and was mentioned by Eusebius as being on the fourth mile from Scythopolis, modern-day Beit She'an/Bisan.

Identification of Tell es-Sarem/Tel Rehov with ancient Rehob was based on the preservation of the name at the nearby Islamic holy tomb of esh-Sheikh er-Rihab (one kilometre to the south of Tel Rehov), and the existence of the ruins of Byzantine-period Rohob one kilometre northwest of Tel Rehov. The name of the excavation site of Rohob is given as Khirbet Farwana (khirbet meaning "site of ruins" in Arabic) and Horbot Parva ("Parva Ruins" in Hebrew).

Archaeological work at Farwana proper has also exposed pottery and other finds from the Iron Age, the Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Early Islamic, Crusader, Mamluk and Ottoman periods.

Byzantine period

Remains of a Byzantine-period synagogue from the fourth to the seventh century CE were found at Tulul Farwana ("mounds of Farwana").

Ottoman period

In 1517, Farwana was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine. In 1596, it appeared in Ottoman tax registers as Farina, being in the Nahiya of Gawr of the Liwa of Ajlun. It had a population of 80 households and 2 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid taxes on wheat, barley, sesame, goats or beehives, and water buffaloes, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 13,000 akçe.

In 1870 Victor Guérin noted that the place was strewn with black stones, apparently basaltic.

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine found at Tellul Farwana "small mounds, apparently artificial."

British Mandate period

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted in Mandatory Palestine authorities, Farwaneh had a population of 84 Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 286, still all Muslims, in 72 houses.

In the 1945 statistics, the population was 330 Muslims, while 11 were built-up (urban) land.

1948 war

Farwana had a population of over 300 people when it was depopulated in the lead up to the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Its Arab inhabitants, along with those of the neighbouring village of al-Ashrafiyya fled to Jordan with the approach of the pre-state Yishuv forces of the Golani Brigade during Operation Gideon on 11 May 1948. The following day, the more than 72 houses that made up the village were completely destroyed. Farwana's inhabitants never returned to the village, and they and their descendants make up one small part of the current population of more than 4 million Palestinian refugees worldwide.

State of Israel

The Jewish Israeli moshav of Rechov (established in 1951) and the government field station Havat Eden were established on the former lands of Farwana. Kibbutz Ein HaNatziv was established in 1946 northeast of the village site, but on land belonging to Baysan, while Sdei Trumot, west of the village site, is on land belonging to Al-Samiriyya.

In 1992 the village site was described: "The only remains of the village are the ruined walls and floors of houses. The site is overgrown with wild vegetation and contains an archeological dig. The lands around it are cultivated by Israelis."

References

Bibliography

References

  1. Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/170/mode/1up 170]
  2. Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PR17 xvii] village #128. Also give cause for depopulation
  3. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p06.jpg 6]
  4. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Baysan/Page-043.jpg 43]
  5. Khalidi, 1992, p. 47
  6. (1999). "The 1997-1998 Excavations at Tel Rehov: Preliminary Report". Israel Exploration Journal.
  7. Dauphin, 1998, pp. 785-786
  8. Yardenna Alexandre, 2017, [http://www.hadashot-esi.org.il/report_detail_eng.aspx?id=25158&mag_id=125 Horbat Parva: Final Report], Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel (HA-ESI), volume 129, year 2017, Israel Antiquities Authority, accessed 15 July 2019
  9. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 168
  10. Guérin, 1874, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptionsam01gu#page/283/mode/1up 283]
  11. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/128/mode/1up 128]
  12. Barron, 1923, Table IX, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n33/mode/1up 31]
  13. Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 78]
  14. with a total of 4,996 dunams of land. Of this, 42 dunams were for plantations or irrigable land, 3,847 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Baysan/Page-084.jpg 84]
  15. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Baysan/Page-134.jpg 134]
  16. Khalidi, 1992, pp. 46-47
  17. Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA227 227]

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