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West Bank village in the Bethlehem Governate From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beit Ta'mir (Arabic: خربة بيت تعمر) is a Palestinian village located six kilometers southeast of Bethlehem.The town is in the Bethlehem Governorate central West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,596 in 2017.[1] The village is named after the 'Arab al-Ta'mira Bedouin tribe of the Bethlehem area, and along with Za'atara, Hindaza, Tuqu', Khirbet al-Deir (today part of Tuqu'), Nuaman, Ubeidiya and al-Asakra forms the 'Arab al-Ta'mira village cluster.
Beit Ta'mir | |
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Arabic transcription(s) | |
• Arabic | خربة بيت تعمر |
Coordinates: 31°40′40″N 35°14′23″E | |
Palestine grid | 172/120 |
State | State of Palestine |
Governorate | Bethlehem |
Government | |
• Type | Village council |
Population (2017)[1] | |
• Total | 1,596 |
Name meaning | The house of the T'amirah Arabs[2] |
Beit Ta’mir is located 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) south-east of Bethlehem. It is bordered by Za'atara to the east, Hindaza to the west and north, and Jannatah and Tuqu' to the south.[3]
The village mosque, the Mosque of Omar, has been tentatively dated to 636 CE.[4]
Beit Ta'mir was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as being in the nahiya of Al-Quds in the liwa of Al-Quds under the name of Bayt Ta'mar. It had a population of 65 household;[5] who were all Muslims. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, vegetable and fruit gardens, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 8,100 Akçe. Half of the revenue went to a Waqf.[5]
In 1838, Edward Robinson noted Beit Ta'mar, the village of the Ta'amirah, on his travels in the region,[6] It was also noted as an Arab village, located south of Wadi er-Rahib in the Jerusalem district.[7]
In 1863, Victor Guérin noted it as an ancient site, inhabited by people of the Ta'amereh tribe.[8]
An Ottoman list from about 1870 notes a "sizable" village with a mosque with a small minaret. The villagers were Bedouin.[9]
In 1883 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Beit T'amir: "a small village on a hill with wells and a few olives. The name is that of an Arab tribe which was originally settled in the place. The village contains a small mosque named after the Khalif Omar."[10]
In 1896 a population list noted that Beit Ta'mir was "half Bedouin".[11]
In the 1945 statistics the population was counted under the name Arab et Ta'amira together with Arab Ibn Ubeid, Arab et Rashayida and Arab et Sawahira; together they had a population of 7,070 Muslims,[12] with Arab et Ta'amira having a total of 209,888 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.[13] Of this, 24 dunams were used plantations and irrigable land, 12,424 for cereals,[14] while 197,440 dunams were classified as non-cultitivable land.[15]
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Beit Ta’mir came under Jordanian rule.
In 1961, the population of Ta'amira was 306.[16]
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Beit Ta'mir has been held under Israeli occupation.
After the 1995 accords, 34.5% of village land was classified as Area A land, 56.2% as Area B, and the remaining 9.3% as Area C.[17]
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