Madama, Nablus
Madama, Nablus | |
|---|---|
| Arabic transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | مادما |
 Madama | |
  Madama, Nablus Location of Madama, Nablus within Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°11′00″N 35°14′10″E / 32.18333°N 35.23611°E | |
| Palestine grid | 171/176 |
| State | State of Palestine |
| Governorate | Nablus |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| Population (2017)[1] | |
| • Total | 2,092 |
| Name meaning | from personal name[2] |
Madama is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate.
Location[edit]
Madama is located 4.78 kilometres (3 mi) south of Nablus. It is bordered by Burin to the east, Asira al-Qibliya to the west and south, and Tell and Iraq Burin to the north.[3]
History[edit]
Ottoman era[edit]
In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and in the 1596 tax-records it was noted as Madama, located in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal, part of Nablus Sanjak. The population was 36 households, all Muslim. They 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 fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 6,250 akçe.[4]
In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Jamma'in al-Thani, subordinate to Nablus.[5]
In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Madama as: "a small hamlet in a valley."[6]
British Mandate era[edit]
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Madama had a population of 170, all Muslims,[7] increasing in the 1931 census to 211, still all Muslims, in a total of 67 houses.[8]
In the 1945 statistics Madama had a population of 290 Muslims[9] and a total of 3,361 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[10] Of this, 162 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,943 used for cereals,[11] while 30 dunams were built-up land.[12]
Jordanian era[edit]
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Madama came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 456 inhabitants in Madama.[13]
Post-1967[edit]
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Madama has been under Israeli occupation.
After the 1995 accords, 62 % of Madama land was defined as Area B, while the remaining 32% was defined as Area C. Israel has confiscated 139 dunams of land from Madama in order to construct the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar.[14]
Settler violence[edit]
In 2006, an incident occurred in Madama in which neighbouring Israeli settlers both "poisoned the village's only well and shot at aid workers who came to clean it."[15]
In May 2017, Israeli settlers, apparently from Yitzhar, attacked a Palestinian shepherd from Madama. The Palestinian was "bleeding profusely", and was sent to a hospital in Nablus. The Israeli soldiers "fired in the air, dispersing the assailants", but none of the attackers were arrested.[16]
In April 2018, Israeli soldiers were filmed "cheering after shooting unarmed Palestinian with rubber bullets" by a roadblock by Madama.[17]
In May 2019, it was reported that Israeli settlers from Yitzhar had started razing and levelling Palestinian-owned agricultural lands in Madama, in order to make a settler-only road.[18]
In September 2019, settlers from Yitzhar stormed the southern part of Madama and set fire to olive trees.[19]
References[edit]
- ^ Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report). State of Palestine. February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 187
- ^ Madama Village Profile, p. 4
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 131
- ^ Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 253.
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 163
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 24
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 62
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 19
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 60
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 107
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 157
- ^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 26
- ^ Madama Village Profile, p. 16
- ^ Pearce, Fred (1 March 2006). "Running on empty". The Guardian.
- ^ Palestinian shepherd suffers head wound in attack by Israelis in West Bank, Yotam Berger, May 27, 2017, Haaretz
- ^ Israeli soldiers filmed cheering after shooting unarmed Palestinian with rubber bullets, 25 April 2018 The Independent
- ^ Israeli settlers raze Palestinian lands for settler-only road, May 6, 2019, Ma'an News Agency
- ^ Settlers Storm Madama Village, September 5, 2019
Bibliography[edit]
- Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics (1964). First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population (PDF).
- Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
- Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Palmer, E.H. (1881). 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. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
External links[edit]
- Welcome To Madama
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Madama Village Profile, Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem, ARIJ
- Madama photo, ARIJ
- Development Priorities and Needs in Madama, ARIJ
