Osarin
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Osarin |
| translit_lang1 | Arabic |
| translit_lang1_type | Arabic |
| translit_lang1_info | أُوصرين |
| translit_lang1_type1 | Latin |
| translit_lang1_info1 | Osarin (official) |
| ’Usarin (unofficial) | |
| type | Municipality type D (Village council) |
| pushpin_map | Palestine |
| pushpin_map_caption | Location of Osarin within Palestine |
| coordinates | |
| grid_name | Palestine grid |
| grid_position | 179/170 |
| subdivision_type | State |
| subdivision_name | State of Palestine |
| subdivision_type1 | Governorate |
| subdivision_name1 | Nablus |
| established_title | Founded |
| government_footnotes | tags -- |
| government_type | Village council |
| unit_pref | dunam |
| population_footnotes | |
| population_total | 2053 |
| population_as_of | 2017 |
| population_density_km2 | auto |
| blank_name_sec1 | Name meaning |
| blank_info_sec1 | "High ground"; |
| :: |
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Osarin () is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 16 kilometers southeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 2,053 inhabitants in 2017.
Location
Osarin is located 11.3 km south of Nablus. It is bordered by Aqraba to the east, Beita to the north and west, and Qabalan to the south.
History
Shards from Iron Age II, Crusader/Ayyubid and Mamluk eras have been found here.
Ottoman era
Shards from the early Ottoman era have been found here.
In 1838, Ausarin was noted as a village in the District of El-Beitawy, east of Nablus.
In 1870 Victor Guérin noted the village, situated on a hill.
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Ausarin had a population of 87 Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 122 Muslim, in 34 houses.
In the 1945 statistics, Usarin had a population of 200 Muslim, with 2,185 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 347 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,098 were used for cereals, while 11 dunams were built-up land.
Jordanian era
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Osarin came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 293 inhabitants in Usarin.
1967-present
After the Six-Day War in 1967, Osarin has been under Israeli occupation.
During the early months of the First Intifada, on 23 March 1898, Adli Maher Sa'id, aged 14, was shot dead. An Israeli citizen, Ovadia Saluni from Masua, was detained as a suspect.
After the 1995 accords, 83% of the village land is defined as Area B land, while the remaining 17% is Area C.
References
Bibliography
References
- (February 2018). "Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017". [[State of Palestine]].
- Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/252/mode/1up 252]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20161010183205/http://vprofile.arij.org/nablus/pdfs/vprofile/Osarin_vp_en.pdf Osarin Village profile], ARIJ
- Finkelstein et al., 1997, p. 713
- In 1596 the village appeared in Ottoman [[daftar. tax registers]] under the name of ‘’Usarin’’, and as being in the ''[[nahiya]]'' of Jabal Qubal in the ''[[Liwa (Arabic). liwa]]'' of [[Sanjak of Nablus
- Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/128/mode/1up 128]
- Guérin, 1875, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr04gugoog#page/n33/mode/1up 12]
- Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n27/mode/1up 25]
- Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 66]
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p19.jpg 19]
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Nablus/Page-061.jpg 61]
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Nablus/Page-108.jpg 108]
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Nablus/Page-158.jpg 158]
- Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensusPages/JordanCensus1961-p26.pdf 26]
- B'Tselem first information sheet May 1989. p, 3. [https://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files/sites/default/files2/update_may_1.1989.pdf pdf]
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