Natifah
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| native_name = ناطفة (إربد)
| native_name_lang = ar
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| subdivision_name1 = Irbid Governorate
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Natifah is a village in Jordan approximately 2 km south-west of Irbid.[http://www.satelliteviews.net/cgi-bin/w.cgi?c=jo&UF=-973120&UN=-1447460&DG=PPL Satellite Views.net, Natifah]
History
In 1596 it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers named as Natifa, situated in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani al-Asar, part of the Sanjak of Hawran. It had 17 households and 9 bachelors; all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products; including wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards/fruit trees, goats and bee-hives. The total tax was 5,500 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 206
In 1838 Natifah's inhabitants were predominantly Sunni Muslims.Smith, in Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/164/mode/1up 164]
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 451 inhabitants in Natifa.Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensusPages/JordanCensus1961-p19.pdf 19]
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Bibliography
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- {{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
| last1= Hütteroth |first1=W.-D.|author-link1=Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth
| last2 =Abdulfattah|first2=K. |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
| last1=Robinson|first1=E.|authorlink1=Edward Robinson (scholar)
| last2=Smith|first2=E.|authorlink2=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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{{Irbid Governorate}}