Araqah
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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Araqah
| translit_lang1 = Arabic
| translit_lang1_type = Arabic
| translit_lang1_info = عرقه
| translit_lang1_type1 = Latin
| translit_lang1_info1 = al-Araqa (official)
’Araqa (unofficial)
| type = Municipality type D (Village council)
| image_skyline = Araqa.JPG
| image_caption = Araqah as seen from the Shahak Industrial Park
| pushpin_map = Palestine
| pushpin_map_caption = Location of Araqah within Palestine
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| grid_name = Palestine grid
| grid_position = 169/208
| subdivision_type = State
| subdivision_name = State of Palestine
| subdivision_type1 = Governorate
| subdivision_name1 = Jenin
| established_title = Founded
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| unit_pref = dunam
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| population_total = 2,667
| population_as_of = 2017
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| blank_name_sec1 = Name meaning
| blank_info_sec1 = The cliffsPalmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/144/mode/1up 144]
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Araqah ({{langx|ar|عرقه}}) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate in the Northern area of the West Bank, located 15 kilometers West of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 2,667 inhabitants in 2017.{{cite web |url=https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Downloads/book2364-1.pdf|title=Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census 2017|author=Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics|date=February 2018|access-date=May 19, 2023|page=64}}
History
Araqah was established in the 18th century, probably by the Abd el-Hadi family or under their auscipes.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. 345
Potsherds from the late Roman,Zertal, 2016, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=XytzCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA215 215] Byzantine,Dauphin, 1998, p. 750 early Muslim and the Middle Ages have been found here.
=Ottoman era=
Pottery remains from the early Ottoman era have also been found here.
In 1870, Victor Guérin described it as a small village, situated on a small hill, and divided into two quarters.Guérin, 1874, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr04gugoog#page/n249/mode/1up 224] In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya of Shafa al-Gharby.{{Cite book |last=Grossman |first=David |title=Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine |publisher=Magnes Press |year=2004 |location=Jerusalem |pages=256}}
In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine found that it was "a village of moderated size on a hill side, with a well to the south."Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/44/mode/1up 44]
=British Mandate era=
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village had a population of 168 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n32/mode/1up 30] increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 219 Muslims, with 36 houses.Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 67]
In 1944/5 statistics the population was 350 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p16.jpg 16] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905203337/http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p16.jpg |date=2018-09-05 }} with a total of 5,675 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Jinin/Page-054.jpg 54] Of this, 462 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,191 dunams 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/Jinin/Page-098.jpg 98] while 27 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Jinin/Page-148.jpg 148]
=Jordanian era=
After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Araqah came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 569 inhabitants.Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensusPages/JordanCensus1961-p25.pdf 25]
=Post-1967=
Araqah has been under Israeli occupation along with the rest of the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.
On 27 April 2015 an eighteen-year-old youth from the village died after being shot the previous day by Israeli soldiers.[http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.653910 Palestinian Man Shot in West Bank Dies of Wounds] Ha'aretz 27/4/2015
Demography
= Local origins =
Some of Araqah's residents have origins in the Bayt Jibrin area, while others have origins in Transjordan.
See also
References
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Bibliography
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- {{cite book |editor =Barron, J.B. |title = Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 |url=https://archive.org/details/PalestineCensus1922 |publisher = Government of Palestine |year = 1923}}
- {{cite book|last1=Conder|first1=C.R.|author-link1=Claude Reignier Conder|last2=Kitchener|first2=H.H.|author-link2=Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|year=1882|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp02conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology|location=London|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund|volume=2}}
- {{cite book |last= Dauphin |first = C.|author-link= Claudine Dauphin| title = La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FC1mAAAAMAAJ |volume = III : Catalogue | series = BAR International Series 726 | year = 1998 | publisher = Archeopress | location = Oxford|language =fr|isbn= 0-860549-05-4}}
- {{cite book | title = First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population | author = Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics | year = 1964|url=http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensus1961bits.pdf}}
- {{cite book|title=Village Statistics, April, 1945 |url=http://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/Hebrew/library/Pages/BookReader.aspx?pid=856390|author=Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics|year=1945}}
- {{cite book|last=Guérin|first=V.|author-link=Victor Guérin|title=Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine|url=https://archive.org/details/descriptiongogr04gugoog|volume=2: Samarie, pt. 2 |year=1875|publisher= L'Imprimerie Nationale|location=Paris|language=fr}}
- {{cite book|title=Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine|url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General-2/Story3150.html|first=S.|last=Hadawi|author-link=Sami Hadawi|year=1970|publisher=Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center}}
- {{cite book | editor = Mills, E. | title = Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas |url=https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas | publisher = Government of Palestine | location = Jerusalem | year = 1932}}
- {{cite book|last=Palmer|first=E.H.|author-link=Edward Henry Palmer|year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp00conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund}}
- {{cite book|last=Zertal|first=A.|author-link=Adam Zertal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XytzCwAAQBAJ |title=The Manasseh Hill Country Survey|volume=3|location=Boston|publisher=BRILL|year=2016|isbn=978-9004312302 }}
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External links
- [http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/_Araqa_565/index.html Welcome To 'Araqa]
- [https://www.welcometopalestine.com/destinations/jenin/araqa/ Araqa], Welcome to Palestine
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8389 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.08.jpg Wikimedia commons]
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