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Ajjul

January 01, 1970

This article is about the Palestinian village in the West Bank. For the archaeological site near Gaza, see Tell el-Ajjul. For the tell in the Jezreel Valley, see Endor (village).

Ajjul (Arabic: عجّول) is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the northern West Bank, located north of Ramallah. There are two archaeological sites or khirbets to the east of the village. One of the khirbets is dedicated to a former resident of Ajjul, Sheikh Abdul.[3] Ajjul is governed by a village council of three members.[4]

Ajjul
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicعجّول
 • Latin'Ajjul (official)
Ajoul (unofficial)
Ajjul
Location of Ajjul within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°01′22″N 35°10′49″E / 32.02278°N 35.18028°E / 32.02278; 35.18028
Palestine grid167/159
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateRamallah and al-Bireh
Government
 • TypeVillage council
 • Head of MunicipalityMoussa Moussa
Area
 • Total6,640 dunams (6.6 km2 or 2.5 sq mi)
Population
 (2017)[1]
 • Total1,402
 • Density210/km2 (550/sq mi)
Name meaning"Calves"[2]

Location edit

Ajjul is located 13.4 kilometers (8.3 mi) (horizontally) north of Ramallah. It is bordered by Atara to the south and east, Abwein to the east, Bani Zeid ash Sharqiya to the north, and Deir as-Sudan and Umm Safa to the west. Ajjul lies at an altitude of 484 meters above sea level.[5]

History edit

Ajjul is a village on an ancient site. Potsherds from the Iron Age, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman/Byzantine, Crusader/Ayyubid, Mamluk and early Ottoman period have also been found.[6] Rock-cut tombs have been found, and ancient architectural fragments have been reused in a mosque.[7]

Crusader/Ayyubid period edit

In the 12th and 13th centuries, during the Crusader period, Ajjul was inhabited by Muslims, according to the Muslim scholar Diya al-Din (d. 1245).[8] A mosque in the village has an inscription in the south wall, dating it to 1196. The inscription is in Ayyubid naskhi script.[9][10]

Röhricht (1842–1905 suggested that Ajjul was the Crusader place called Gul;[11] however, Conder (1848–1910) disagreed.[12]

Ottoman period edit

The village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Quds of the Liwa of Quds. It had a population of 79 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, which included wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards and fruit trees, olives, goats and/or beehives; a total of 8,745 akçe. Half of the revenue went to a Waqf.[13]

In the 17th century, the village received an influx of refugees from Beit Qufa near Lydda, who had to abandon their home due to unsettled conditions.[14]

In 1838 Ajjul was noted as a Muslim village in the Beni Zeid administrative region.[15] In 1870 Victor Guérin passed by the village, which he called A'djoul, and estimated it to have about 300 inhabitants. Around Ajjul he found large fig and carob-trees, besides pomegranate, mulberry and apricot trees.[16] An official Ottoman village list from about the same year showed that Ajjul had 79 houses and a population of 250, though the population count included men, only.[17][18]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Ajjul as a "village of moderate size, with a well. It is on high ground, with olives round it, and ancient tombs. An ancient road leads towards it on the south."[19] In 1896 the population of Ajjul was estimated to be about 468 persons.[20]

British Mandate edit

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Ajjul had a population of 202, all Muslim.[21] By the time of the 1931 census, Ajjul had 79 occupied houses and a population of 292, still all Muslim.[22]

In the 1945 statistics, the population was 350 Muslims,[23] and the total land area was 6,639 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[24] Of this, 3,507 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 863 for cereals,[25] while 14 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[26]

Jordanian period edit

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

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 600 inhabitants here.[27]

Post 1967 edit

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

After the 1995 accords, 48.3% of Ajjul land is defined as Area A land, 27.2% is Area B, while the remaining 24.5% is defined as Area C. Israel has confiscated 363 dunams of village land in order to construct the Israeli settlement of Ateret.[28]

Demographics edit

According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), Ajjul had a population of 1,402 inhabitants in 2017.[1] In a 1997 PCBS census, 4.2% of Ajjul's population — which was 1,026 — were Palestinian refugees.[29] The largest age group in the village were infants to 14-year-olds, making up 44.2% of the population. About 25.3% of the population is between the ages of 15 and 29, 24.2% between 30 and 64 and residents 65 or older represent 6.3% of the population. There were slightly more males (51.7%) than females (49.3%) in Ajjul's gender make-up.[30] In the 2007 PCBS census, the figures of Ajjul's population showed a smaller population of 1,237 people, of which 601 were males and 636 were females.[31]

Infrastructure edit

Ajjul contains a clinic that is primarily involved in blood testing. Most of the residents receive medical help from the Palestinian Red Crescent stationed in nearby Sinjil. The nearest hospital is in Ramallah.

Two mosques are located in Ajjul: a modern one and an older renovated one.[3]

There is a mixed-gender secondary school in the village, in which 400 students are enrolled. Students attend science and literature classes at the Prince Hassan School in Bir Zeit. Ajjul has about 50 college and university students. There is no postal service in the village.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ a b 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.
  2. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 224
  3. ^ a b c Ajjul Village Ajjul Village Council. (Translated from Arabic)
  4. ^ Ajjul Village Council. (Translated from Arabic)
  5. ^ 'Ajjul Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 4
  6. ^ Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 415
  7. ^ Dauphin, 1998, p. 824
  8. ^ Ellenblum, 2003, p. 244
  9. ^ Sharon, 1997, p 17 ff
  10. ^ Fig 8
  11. ^ Röhricht, 1887, p. 223, cited in Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 415
  12. ^ Conder, 1890, p. 34 suggested Qula as the place for Gul.
  13. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 117.
  14. ^ Marom, Roy (2022-11-01). "Jindās: A History of Lydda's Rural Hinterland in the 15th to the 20th Centuries CE". Lod, Lydda, Diospolis. 1: 14.
  15. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 125
  16. ^ Guérin, 1875, pp. 169-170
  17. ^ Socin, 1879, p. 142 Also noted it to be in the Beni Zeid region
  18. ^ Hartmann, 1883, pp. 111, 114 also noted 79 houses
  19. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, p. 289
  20. ^ Schick, 1896, p. 124
  21. ^ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramallah, p. 16
  22. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 47.
  23. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 26
  24. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 64
  25. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 111
  26. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 161
  27. ^ Government of Jordan, 1964, p. 24
  28. ^ 'Ajjul Village Profile, ARIJ, pp. 16-17
  29. ^ Palestinian Population by Locality and Refugee Status 2008-11-19 at the Wayback Machine Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).
  30. ^ Palestinian Population by Locality, Sex and Age Groups in Years 2008-11-19 at the Wayback Machine Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).
  31. ^ 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.113.

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.
  • Conder, C.R. (1890). "Norman Palestine". Quarterly Statement - Palestine Exploration Fund. 22: 29–37. doi:10.1179/peq.1890.22.1.29.
  • Dauphin, C. (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). Vol. III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. ISBN 0-86054-905-4.
  • Ellenblum, R. (2003). Frankish Rural Settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-52187-1.
  • Finkelstein, I.; Lederman, Zvi, eds. (1997). Highlands of many cultures. Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. ISBN 965-440-007-3.
  • 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.
  • Guérin, V. (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
  • Hadawi, S. (1970). . Palestine Liberation Organization Research Centre. Archived from the original on 2018-12-08. Retrieved 2012-11-26.
  • Hartmann, M. (1883). "Die Ortschaftenliste des Liwa Jerusalem in dem türkischen Staatskalender für Syrien auf das Jahr 1288 der Flucht (1871)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 6: 102–149.
  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
  • Röhricht, R. (1887). "Studien zur mittelalterlichen Geographie und Topographie Syriens". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 10: 195–344.
  • Schick, C. (1896). "Zur Einwohnerzahl des Bezirks Jerusalem". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 19: 120–127.
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External links edit

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  • Ajjul, Welcome to Palestine
  • Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons
  • Testimony: Three Palestinians beaten at flying checkpoint 31 May 2007 B'Tselem
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January 01, 1970
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This article is about the Palestinian village in the West Bank For the archaeological site near Gaza see Tell el Ajjul For the tell in the Jezreel Valley see Endor village Ajjul Arabic عج ول is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al Bireh Governorate in the northern West Bank located north of Ramallah There are two archaeological sites or khirbets to the east of the village One of the khirbets is dedicated to a former resident of Ajjul Sheikh Abdul 3 Ajjul is governed by a village council of three members 4 AjjulMunicipality type D Village council Arabic transcription s Arabicعج ول Latin Ajjul official Ajoul unofficial AjjulLocation of Ajjul within PalestineCoordinates 32 01 22 N 35 10 49 E 32 02278 N 35 18028 E 32 02278 35 18028Palestine grid167 159StateState of PalestineGovernorateRamallah and al BirehGovernment TypeVillage council Head of MunicipalityMoussa MoussaArea Total6 640 dunams 6 6 km2 or 2 5 sq mi Population 2017 1 Total1 402 Density210 km2 550 sq mi Name meaning Calves 2 Contents 1 Location 2 History 2 1 Crusader Ayyubid period 2 2 Ottoman period 2 3 British Mandate 2 4 Jordanian period 2 5 Post 1967 3 Demographics 4 Infrastructure 5 References 6 Bibliography 7 External linksLocation editAjjul is located 13 4 kilometers 8 3 mi horizontally north of Ramallah It is bordered by Atara to the south and east Abwein to the east Bani Zeid ash Sharqiya to the north and Deir as Sudan and Umm Safa to the west Ajjul lies at an altitude of 484 meters above sea level 5 History editAjjul is a village on an ancient site Potsherds from the Iron Age Persian Hellenistic Roman Byzantine Crusader Ayyubid Mamluk and early Ottoman period have also been found 6 Rock cut tombs have been found and ancient architectural fragments have been reused in a mosque 7 Crusader Ayyubid period edit In the 12th and 13th centuries during the Crusader period Ajjul was inhabited by Muslims according to the Muslim scholar Diya al Din d 1245 8 A mosque in the village has an inscription in the south wall dating it to 1196 The inscription is in Ayyubid naskhi script 9 10 Rohricht 1842 1905 suggested that Ajjul was the Crusader place called Gul 11 however Conder 1848 1910 disagreed 12 Ottoman period edit The village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Quds of the Liwa of Quds It had a population of 79 households all Muslim They paid a fixed tax rate of 33 3 on agricultural products which included wheat barley summer crops vineyards and fruit trees olives goats and or beehives a total of 8 745 akce Half of the revenue went to a Waqf 13 In the 17th century the village received an influx of refugees from Beit Qufa near Lydda who had to abandon their home due to unsettled conditions 14 In 1838 Ajjul was noted as a Muslim village in the Beni Zeid administrative region 15 In 1870 Victor Guerin passed by the village which he called A djoul and estimated it to have about 300 inhabitants Around Ajjul he found large fig and carob trees besides pomegranate mulberry and apricot trees 16 An official Ottoman village list from about the same year showed that Ajjul had 79 houses and a population of 250 though the population count included men only 17 18 In 1882 the PEF s Survey of Western Palestine described Ajjul as a village of moderate size with a well It is on high ground with olives round it and ancient tombs An ancient road leads towards it on the south 19 In 1896 the population of Ajjul was estimated to be about 468 persons 20 British Mandate edit In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities Ajjul had a population of 202 all Muslim 21 By the time of the 1931 census Ajjul had 79 occupied houses and a population of 292 still all Muslim 22 In the 1945 statistics the population was 350 Muslims 23 and the total land area was 6 639 dunams according to an official land and population survey 24 Of this 3 507 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land 863 for cereals 25 while 14 dunams were classified as built up areas 26 Jordanian period edit In the wake of the 1948 Arab Israeli War and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements Ajjul came under Jordanian rule The Jordanian census of 1961 found 600 inhabitants here 27 Post 1967 edit Since the Six Day War in 1967 Ajjul has been under Israeli occupation After the 1995 accords 48 3 of Ajjul land is defined as Area A land 27 2 is Area B while the remaining 24 5 is defined as Area C Israel has confiscated 363 dunams of village land in order to construct the Israeli settlement of Ateret 28 Demographics editAccording to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics PCBS Ajjul had a population of 1 402 inhabitants in 2017 1 In a 1997 PCBS census 4 2 of Ajjul s population which was 1 026 were Palestinian refugees 29 The largest age group in the village were infants to 14 year olds making up 44 2 of the population About 25 3 of the population is between the ages of 15 and 29 24 2 between 30 and 64 and residents 65 or older represent 6 3 of the population There were slightly more males 51 7 than females 49 3 in Ajjul s gender make up 30 In the 2007 PCBS census the figures of Ajjul s population showed a smaller population of 1 237 people of which 601 were males and 636 were females 31 Infrastructure editAjjul contains a clinic that is primarily involved in blood testing Most of the residents receive medical help from the Palestinian Red Crescent stationed in nearby Sinjil The nearest hospital is in Ramallah Two mosques are located in Ajjul a modern one and an older renovated one 3 There is a mixed gender secondary school in the village in which 400 students are enrolled Students attend science and literature classes at the Prince Hassan School in Bir Zeit Ajjul has about 50 college and university students There is no postal service in the village 3 References edit a b 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 224 a b c Ajjul Village Ajjul Village Council Translated from Arabic Village Council MembersAjjul Village Council Translated from Arabic Ajjul Village Profile ARIJ p 4 Finkelstein et al 1997 p 415 Dauphin 1998 p 824 Ellenblum 2003 p 244 Sharon 1997 p 17 ff Fig 8 Rohricht 1887 p 223 cited in Finkelstein et al 1997 p 415 Conder 1890 p 34 suggested Qula as the place for Gul Hutteroth and Abdulfattah 1977 p 117 Marom Roy 2022 11 01 Jindas A History of Lydda s Rural Hinterland in the 15th to the 20th Centuries CE Lod Lydda Diospolis 1 14 Robinson and Smith 1841 vol 3 Appendix 2 p 125 Guerin 1875 pp 169 170 Socin 1879 p 142 Also noted it to be in the Beni Zeid region Hartmann 1883 pp 111 114 also noted 79 houses Conder and Kitchener 1882 p 289 Schick 1896 p 124 Barron 1923 Table VII Sub district of Ramallah p 16 Mills 1932 p 47 Government of Palestine Department of Statistics 1945 p 26 Government of Palestine Department of Statistics Village Statistics April 1945 Quoted in Hadawi 1970 p 64 Government of Palestine Department of Statistics Village Statistics April 1945 Quoted in Hadawi 1970 p 111 Government of Palestine Department of Statistics Village Statistics April 1945 Quoted in Hadawi 1970 p 161 Government of Jordan 1964 p 24 Ajjul Village Profile ARIJ pp 16 17 Palestinian Population by Locality and Refugee Status Archived 2008 11 19 at the Wayback Machine Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics PCBS Palestinian Population by Locality Sex and Age Groups in Years Archived 2008 11 19 at the Wayback Machine Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics PCBS 2007 PCBS Census Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics p 113 Bibliography editBarron 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 Conder C R 1890 Norman Palestine Quarterly Statement Palestine Exploration Fund 22 29 37 doi 10 1179 peq 1890 22 1 29 Dauphin C 1998 La Palestine byzantine Peuplement et Populations BAR International Series 726 in French Vol III Catalogue Oxford Archeopress ISBN 0 86054 905 4 Ellenblum R 2003 Frankish Rural Settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem Cambridge University Press ISBN 978 0 521 52187 1 Finkelstein I Lederman Zvi eds 1997 Highlands of many cultures Tel Aviv Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section ISBN 965 440 007 3 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 Guerin V 1875 Description Geographique Historique et Archeologique de la Palestine in French Vol 2 Samarie pt 2 Paris L Imprimerie Nationale Hadawi S 1970 Village Statistics of 1945 A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine Palestine Liberation Organization Research Centre Archived from the original on 2018 12 08 Retrieved 2012 11 26 Hartmann M 1883 Die Ortschaftenliste des Liwa Jerusalem in dem turkischen Staatskalender fur Syrien auf das Jahr 1288 der Flucht 1871 Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palastina Vereins 6 102 149 Hutteroth 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 Frankischen 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 Robinson E Smith E 1841 Biblical Researches in Palestine Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea A Journal of Travels in the year 1838 Vol 3 Boston Crocker amp Brewster Rohricht R 1887 Studien zur mittelalterlichen Geographie und Topographie Syriens Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palastina Vereins 10 195 344 Schick C 1896 Zur Einwohnerzahl des Bezirks Jerusalem Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palastina Vereins 19 120 127 Sharon M 1997 Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae A Vol 1 BRILL ISBN 90 04 10833 5 Socin A 1879 Alphabetisches Verzeichniss von Ortschaften des Paschalik Jerusalem Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palastina Vereins 2 135 163 External links editWelcome To Ajjul Ajjul Welcome to Palestine Survey of Western Palestine Map 14 IAA Wikimedia commons Testimony Three Palestinians beaten at flying checkpoint 31 May 2007 B Tselem Ajjul Village Fact Sheet Applied Research Institute Jerusalem ARIJ Ajjul Village Profile ARIJ Ajjul aerial photo ARIJ 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