Saffarin

Saffarin has been identified with the Israelite village of Sepher, which was mentioned in one of the Samaria Ostraca.{{Cite journal |last=Millard |first=Alan | author-link =Alan Millard |date=1995-11-01 |title=The Knowledge of Writing in Iron Age Palestine |journal=Tyndale Bulletin |volume=46 |issue=2 |pages=208 |doi=10.53751/001c.30407 |issn=2752-7042 |quote=Sixteen of the twenty-seven place names can be identified with those of Arab villages existing in the past hundred years in the countryside around Samaria (such as Elmatan, 28.3, modern Ammatin, or Sepher, 16a, b.1, 2, 29.3, modern Saffarin)|doi-access=free }}

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.Dauphin, 1998, p. 768

During the Crusader period, Diya' al-Din (1173–1245) writes that there was a Muslim population in the Saffarin.Talmon-Heller, 1994, p. [https://www.academia.edu/7232922/ 109]Talmon-Heller, 2002, p. [https://www.academia.edu/4429775/ 134]

Saffarin, like all of Palestine was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. In the 1596 tax registers, part of the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Jabal Sami, part of the larger Sanjak of Nablus. It had a population of 8 households, all Muslims. The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a press for olive oil or grape syrup, and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 9,167 akçe. 3/24 of the revenue went to the Waqf Halil ar-Rahman.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 126

During the 18th century, a group of Transjordanian Huwaytat Arabs, settled in the village. The newcomers formed several families, including the Dar Hasan hamula, cmprised of the Hannun, Salih, Abu Dhiyab, ‘Ali Abu Bakr, and Samara families. In the middle of the 19th century, the Hannun and Samara families moved to Tulkarm together with other families of Saffarin. Later on, members of the Hannun family established the plantation/village of Bayyarat Hannun near the coastal city of Netanya, and would serve as mayors of Tulkarm for most of the 20th century.{{Cite journal |last=Marom |first=Roy |author-link=Roy Marom |year=2024 |title=THE PALESTINIAN RURAL NOTABLES' CLASS IN ASCENDENCY: THE HANNUN FAMILY OF TULKARM (PALESTINE) |url=https://www.academia.edu/118470248 |journal=Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=84 |doi=10.3366/hlps.2024.0327 |via=Academia|doi-access=free }}

In 1870 Victor Guérin noted it as a village of 600 persons.Guérin, 1875, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr04gugoog#page/n237/mode/1up 212]

In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Wadi al-Sha'ir.{{Cite book |last=Grossman |first=David |title=Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine |publisher=Magnes Press |year=2004 |location=Jerusalem |pages=253}}

In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Sefarin as: "a small village on a knoll, upon a ridge, supplied by cisterns, with a few olive trees."Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/161/mode/1up 161]

Around the turn of the 20th century, Saffarin was one of the villages in which the Hannun family owned extensive estates. The Hannuns fostered close ties with the clans inhabiting the village.{{Cite journal |last=Marom |first=Roy |title=The Palestinian Rural Notables' Class in Ascendancy: The Hannun Family of Tulkarm (Palestine) |url=https://www.academia.edu/118470248/The_Palestinian_Rural_Notables_Class_in_Ascendancy_The_Hannun_Family_of_Tulkarm_Palestine_ |journal=Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=77–108}}

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Sufarin had a population of 458 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Tulkarm, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n29/mode/1up 27] increasing in the 1931 census to 444 Muslims, living in 100 houses.Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 57]

In the 1945 statistics the population of Saffarin was 530 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p21.jpg 21] with 9,687 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/Tulkarm/Page-076.jpg 76] Of this, 1,624 dunams were used plantations and irrigable land, 1,384 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/Tulkarm/Page-127.jpg 127] while 13 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/Tulkarm/Page-177.jpg 177]

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

In 1961, the population was 616.Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensusPages/JordanCensus1961-p27.pdf 27]

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Saffarin has been under Israeli oppressive occupation.

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• [http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/Saffarin_1536/index.html Welcome To Saffarin]
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8373 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.11.jpg Wikimedia commons]

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