Arranah
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{{Infobox settlement
| name = ’Arrana
| translit_lang1 = Arabic
| translit_lang1_type = Arabic
| translit_lang1_info = عرّانه
| type = Municipality type D (Village council)
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| pushpin_map = Palestine
| pushpin_map_caption = Location of ’Arrana within Palestine
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| coordinates = {{coord|32|29|50|N|35|19|20|E|region:PS|display=inline,title}}
| grid_name = Palestine grid
| grid_position = 180/211
| 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 = 2,418
| population_as_of = 2017
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| blank_name_sec1 = Name meaning
| blank_info_sec1 = from personal name, or perhaps from the Arab form of “a hyæna’s den” Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/159/mode/1up 159]
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’Arrana ({{langx|ar|عرّانه}}) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate, located 4 kilometers Northeast of Jenin, in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 2,418 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
It has been suggested that this was Aaruna in the list of places conquered by Thutmose III.Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/82/mode/1up 82]-83
Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.Dauphin, 1998, p. 783
=Ottoman era=
Arranah, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village appeared as 'Arrana, located in the nahiya of Sara in the liwa of Lajjun. It had a population of 17 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25 % on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 9,000 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 161
In 1838, it was noted as a village in the Jenin district.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2 appendix, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/130/mode/1up 130]Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/n174/mode/1up 157], [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/n177/mode/1up 160]
In 1870, Victor Guérin noted it on a small hilltop.Guérin, 1874, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptionsam01gu#page/337/mode/1up 337]
In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Arraneh as: "A small village, principally of mud, with a few stone houses, standing in the plain, surrounded by olive-yards. It is supplied with water from cisterns. A kubbeh exists about 1/4 mile north of the village."
=British Mandate era=
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village had a population of 216 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n31/mode/1up 29] increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 267 Muslims, in 46 households.Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 67]
In 1944/5 statistics the population was 320, all Muslim,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 7,866 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, 13 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 6,460 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 10 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 and the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Arranah came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 539 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=
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Arranah has been under Israeli occupation.
Footnotes
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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/descriptionsam01gu|volume=2: Samarie, pt. 1|year=1874|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 | last1= Hütteroth|first1=W.-D.|author-link1=Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth |first2=K. | last2=Abdulfattah |author-link2=Kamal Abdulfattah| title = Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=wqULAAAAIAAJ | year = 1977 | publisher = Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft|isbn= 3-920405-41-2}}
- {{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|last1=Robinson|first1=E.|author-link1=Edward Robinson (scholar)|last2=Smith|first2=E.|author-link2=Eli Smith|year=1841|url=https://archive.org/details/biblicalresearch03robiuoft |title=Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838| location=Boston|publisher=Crocker & Brewster|volume=3}}
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External links
- [http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/_Arrana_567/index.html Welcome To 'Arrana]
- [https://www.welcometopalestine.com/destinations/jenin/arrana/ Arrana], Welcome to Palestine
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 9: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8371 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.09.jpg Wikimedia commons]
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