Talfit

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Field	Value
name	Talfit
translit_lang1	Arabic
translit_lang1_type	Arabic
translit_lang1_info	تلفيت
type	Municipality type D (Village council)
image_skyline	Talfit5251.jpg
image_caption	Talfit from the west
pushpin_map	Palestine
pushpin_map_caption	Location of Talfit within Palestine
coordinates
grid_name	Palestine grid
grid_position	177/165
subdivision_type	State
subdivision_name	State of Palestine
subdivision_type1	Governorate
subdivision_name1	Nablus
established_title	Founded
government_footnotes	tags --
government_type	Village council
leader_title	Head of Municipality
leader_name	Raed Ershed
unit_pref	dunam
population_footnotes
population_total	3591
population_as_of	2017
population_density_km2	auto
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Location

Talfit is located 15.1 km south Nablus. It is bordered by Jalud and Qusra to the east, Jurish and Qabalan to the north, Eli, Mateh Binyamin to the west, and Qaryut to the south.

History

Potsherds from the Iron Age II, Persian and Byzantine/Ayyubid eras have been found.

Röhricht suggested identifying Talfit with Tarphin, mentioned in a Crusader text from 1154, but a later author (Abel) preferred to locate it at Kh. Tarfein to the north of Bir Zeit. According to Finkelstein, Kh. Tarfein better fits the archaeological finds.

Potsherds from the Mamluk era has also been found.

Ottoman era

In 1596, Talfit appeared in Ottoman tax registers as a village in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal in the Liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 12 Muslim households. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 33,3% on wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, and goats or beehives; a total of 1,500 akçe. Potsherds from the early Ottoman era has also been found here.

In 1838 Edward Robinson noted Telfit located in El-Beitawy district, east of Nablus.

The PEF's Survey of Western Palestine noted in 1882 that the place resembled Kabalan, the latter being described as a village of moderate size, on high ground, surrounded by olive trees. Talfit was supplied with water from a well called 'Ain Telfit.

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Talfit had a population of 352, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 464, still all Muslim, in 116 occupied houses.

In the 1945 statistics, Telfit had a population of 610 Muslims, with 6,258 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 3,309 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,228 used for cereals, while 49 dunams were built-up land.

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Talfit came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 904 inhabitants.

1967-present

After the Six-Day War in 1967, Talfit has been under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 97% of the village land is classified as Area B land, while the remaining 3% is Area C.

Demography

Local origins

Locals trace their origins to the area of Damascus, in Syria.

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/245/mode/1up 245]
[http://vprofile.arij.org/nablus/pdfs/vprofile/Talfit_vp_en.pdf Talfit Village Profile], ARIJ, p. 4
Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 655
Röhricht, 1887, p. [https://archive.org/stream/zeitschriftdesde09deut#page/213/mode/1up 213]
Abel, 1928:52, cited in Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 655
Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 133
Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/128/mode/1up 128]
Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/288/mode/1up 288]
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 65]
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-p25.pdf 25]
Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in '''Shomron studies'''. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 356

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