Ammuriya, Nablus

This article is about the village in the West Bank. For the town in Jordan, see Ammuriya, Jordan.

'Ammuriya
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	ﺔﻴﻭﺭﻤﻋ
• Also spelled	'Amuria (official) 'Amuriya (unofficial)
'Ammuriya Location of 'Ammuriya within the Palestinian Territories
Coordinates:
Palestine grid	169/163
Governorate	Nablus
Government
• Type	Local Development Committee
• Head of Municipality	Sulaiman Hakawati
Population (2007)
• Jurisdiction	302

'Ammuriya (Arabic: ﺔﻴﻭﺭﻤﻋ‎‎, also spelled 'Amuria) is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank, located south of Nablus. Nearby localities include Iskaka to the north, al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya to the east, Abwein to the south, 'Arura and Mazari an-Nubani to the southwest and Salfit to the northwest. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, 'Ammuriya had a population of 302 in 2007. There were 48 households and five business establishments in the village.

History

Pottery sherds from Iron Age II, Hellenistic/Roman, Crusader/Ayyubid and Mamluk eras have been found here.

Ottoman era

In 1596, it appeared in Ottoman tax registers as "′Ammuriya", a village in the nahiya of Jabal Qubal in the liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 7 households and 1 bachelor, all Muslim. The villagers paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, and a press for olive oils or grapes; a total of 0,000 akçe.

In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described it as "A small village on high ground".

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the population was 69, all Muslim, while at the time of the 1931 census, Ammuriya had 19 occupied houses and a population of 85, all Muslim. In 1945 the population was 120, all Muslims, with 3111 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 1753 dunams were used for cereals, while 6 dunams were built-up land.

Israel (post-1967)

In 1967 the village came under Israeli occupation after the Six-Day War, and the same year the population was found to be 130.

Bibliography

• Perlmann, Joel: The 1967 Census of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Digitized Version. Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. November 2011 – February 2012. [Digitized from: Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing, 1967 Conducted in the Areas Administered by the IDF, Vols. 1–5 (1967–70), and Census of Population and Housing: East Jerusalem, Parts 1 and 2 (1968–70).]

External links

• Welcome To 'Ammuriya
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons