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Beit Lid

May 08, 2024

Beit Lid (Arabic: بيت ليد) is a Palestinian town in the Tulkarm Governorate in the northeastern West Bank, located a 10 kilometers southeast of Tulkarm and west of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 5,606 inhabitants in 2017.[1] In 1922, it had 653 inhabitants,[3] which rose to 1,807 in 1961.[4]

Beit Lid
Municipality type C
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicبيت ليد
 • LatinBayt Lid (official)
Bayt Leed (unofficial)
School in Beit Lid
Beit Lid
Location of Beit Lid within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°15′40″N 35°07′48″E / 32.26111°N 35.13000°E / 32.26111; 35.13000
Palestine grid162/185
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateTulkarm
Government
 • TypeMunicipality
Area
 • Total16,753 dunams (16.8 km2 or 6.5 sq mi)
Population
 (2017)[1]
 • Total5,606
 • Density330/km2 (860/sq mi)
Name meaningThe house of Lid[2]

History edit

Byzantine ceramics have been found here.[5]

The village mosque has a large gate with a triple arch. An inscription over the lintel is a construction text, commemorating the building of the mosque. It dates from the late Mamluk, or early Ottoman period.[6]

Ottoman era edit

Beit Lid, like all of Palestine was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. In the 1596 tax registers, it was part of the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Jabal Sami, part of the larger Sanjak of Nablus. It had a population of 64 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; a total of 17,310 akçe. Half of the revenues went to a Waqf.[7]

In 1838, Edward Robinson passed it in the distance,[8] and placed it in the Wady esh-Sha'ir administrative region, west of Nablus.[9] In 1863 Victor Guérin noted it as a considerable village which occupied the top of a high hill; containing a thousand inhabitants. The houses were crudely built.[10]

In the 1860s, the Ottoman authorities granted the village an agricultural plot of land called Ghabat Beit Lid in the former confines of the Forest of Arsur (Ar. Al-Ghaba) in the coastal plain, west of the village. This formed the foundation for the village of Khirbat Bayt Lid, founded by some Beit Lid's residents.[11][12]

In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Wadi al-Sha'ir.[13]

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Beit Lid as “A village of small size, built on a hill rising 600 feet above the valley south of it. The houses are of stone, and supplied by a well on the south-east, lower down. A few olives grow round the village.”[14]

British Mandate era edit

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Beit Lid's population was 653, all Muslims,[3] increasing in the 1931 census to 738 residents, still all Muslim, in a total of 171 houses.[15]

In the 1945 statistics the population of Beit Lid was 960 Muslims,[16] and the land area was 16,752 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[17] 1,044 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 3,264 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 4,473 used for cereals,[18] while 22 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[19]

1948-1967 edit

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Beit Lid came under Jordanian occupation.

In 1961, the population of Beit Lid was 1,807.[4]

Post-1967 edit

After the Six-Day War in 1967, Beit Lid has been under Israeli occupation.

Economy edit

Agriculture is a major economic sector in Beit Lid, with olives, almonds, figs, grapes and grains being the primary crops grown on 16,753 dunams. Until recently, agriculture employed most of the working males of the town, however, many residents are employed in small business professions, such as construction, blacksmithing and electricity. Many in Beit Lid that worked inside Israel, have been unemployed since the Second Intifada and the difficult conditions surrounding it.[20]

There are four schools (two primary and two secondary), four kindergartens, a clinic operated by the Palestinian National Authority and founded in 1964. Beit Lid contains four mosques, including Masjid al-Qadim, Masjid Fatima Zahra, Masjid as-Salaam and Masjid Salah ad-Din.[20]

See also edit

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. 180
  3. ^ a b Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Tulkarem, p. 27
  4. ^ a b Government of Jordan, 1964, p. 27
  5. ^ Dauphin, 1998, p. 768
  6. ^ Sharon, 1999, pp. 152 -153
  7. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 126
  8. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, p. 137
  9. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd Appendix, p. 129
  10. ^ Guérin, 1875, pp. 211 -212
  11. ^ Marom, Roy, "The Contribution of Conder's Tent Work in Palestine for the Understanding of Shifting Geographical, Social and Legal Realities in the Sharon during the Late Ottoman Period", in Gurevich D. and Kidron, A. (eds.), Exploring the Holy Land: 150 Years of the Palestine Exploration Fund, Sheffield, UK, Equinox (2019), pp. 212-231
  12. ^ Marom, Roy (2022). "The Oak Forest of the Sharon (al-Ghaba) in the Ottoman Period: New Insights from Historical- Geographical Studies, Muse 5,". escholarship.org. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
  13. ^ Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 253.
  14. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 159
  15. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 53
  16. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 20
  17. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 74
  18. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 124
  19. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 174
  20. ^ a b Information of Beit Lid PalestineRemembered. 2001-03-21. (in Arabic)

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.
  • Dauphin, C. (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). Vol. III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. ISBN 0-860549-05-4.
  • 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). 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.
  • 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.
  • Sharon, M. (1999). Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, B-C. Vol. 2. BRILL. ISBN 90-04-11083-6.

External links edit

  • Welcome To Bayt Lid
  • Beit Lid, Welcome to Palestine
  • Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11: IAA, Wikimedia commons

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Beit Lid Arabic بيت ليد is a Palestinian town in the Tulkarm Governorate in the northeastern West Bank located a 10 kilometers southeast of Tulkarm and west of Nablus According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics the town had a population of 5 606 inhabitants in 2017 1 In 1922 it had 653 inhabitants 3 which rose to 1 807 in 1961 4 Beit LidMunicipality type CArabic transcription s Arabicبيت ليد LatinBayt Lid official Bayt Leed unofficial School in Beit LidBeit LidLocation of Beit Lid within PalestineCoordinates 32 15 40 N 35 07 48 E 32 26111 N 35 13000 E 32 26111 35 13000Palestine grid162 185StateState of PalestineGovernorateTulkarmGovernment TypeMunicipalityArea Total16 753 dunams 16 8 km2 or 6 5 sq mi Population 2017 1 Total5 606 Density330 km2 860 sq mi Name meaningThe house of Lid 2 Contents 1 History 1 1 Ottoman era 1 2 British Mandate era 1 3 1948 1967 1 4 Post 1967 1 4 1 Economy 2 See also 3 References 4 Bibliography 5 External linksHistory editByzantine ceramics have been found here 5 The village mosque has a large gate with a triple arch An inscription over the lintel is a construction text commemorating the building of the mosque It dates from the late Mamluk or early Ottoman period 6 Ottoman era edit Beit Lid like all of Palestine was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 In the 1596 tax registers it was part of the nahiya subdistrict of Jabal Sami part of the larger Sanjak of Nablus It had a population of 64 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 a total of 17 310 akce Half of the revenues went to a Waqf 7 In 1838 Edward Robinson passed it in the distance 8 and placed it in the Wady esh Sha ir administrative region west of Nablus 9 In 1863 Victor Guerin noted it as a considerable village which occupied the top of a high hill containing a thousand inhabitants The houses were crudely built 10 In the 1860s the Ottoman authorities granted the village an agricultural plot of land called Ghabat Beit Lid in the former confines of the Forest of Arsur Ar Al Ghaba in the coastal plain west of the village This formed the foundation for the village of Khirbat Bayt Lid founded by some Beit Lid s residents 11 12 In 1870 1871 1288 AH an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya sub district of Wadi al Sha ir 13 In 1882 the PEF s Survey of Western Palestine SWP described Beit Lid as A village of small size built on a hill rising 600 feet above the valley south of it The houses are of stone and supplied by a well on the south east lower down A few olives grow round the village 14 British Mandate era edit In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities Beit Lid s population was 653 all Muslims 3 increasing in the 1931 census to 738 residents still all Muslim in a total of 171 houses 15 In the 1945 statistics the population of Beit Lid was 960 Muslims 16 and the land area was 16 752 dunams according to an official land and population survey 17 1 044 dunams were for citrus and bananas 3 264 dunams were plantations and irrigable land 4 473 used for cereals 18 while 22 dunams were built up urban land 19 1948 1967 edit In the wake of the 1948 Arab Israeli War and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements Beit Lid came under Jordanian occupation In 1961 the population of Beit Lid was 1 807 4 Post 1967 edit After the Six Day War in 1967 Beit Lid has been under Israeli occupation Economy edit Agriculture is a major economic sector in Beit Lid with olives almonds figs grapes and grains being the primary crops grown on 16 753 dunams Until recently agriculture employed most of the working males of the town however many residents are employed in small business professions such as construction blacksmithing and electricity Many in Beit Lid that worked inside Israel have been unemployed since the Second Intifada and the difficult conditions surrounding it 20 There are four schools two primary and two secondary four kindergartens a clinic operated by the Palestinian National Authority and founded in 1964 Beit Lid contains four mosques including Masjid al Qadim Masjid Fatima Zahra Masjid as Salaam and Masjid Salah ad Din 20 See also editBeit Lid suicide bombing January 1995 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 180 a b Barron 1923 Table IX Sub district of Tulkarem p 27 a b Government of Jordan 1964 p 27 Dauphin 1998 p 768 Sharon 1999 pp 152 153 Hutteroth and Abdulfattah 1977 p 126 Robinson and Smith 1841 vol 3 p 137 Robinson and Smith 1841 vol 3 2nd Appendix p 129 Guerin 1875 pp 211 212 Marom Roy The Contribution of Conder s Tent Work in Palestine for the Understanding of Shifting Geographical Social and Legal Realities in the Sharon during the Late Ottoman Period in Gurevich D and Kidron A eds Exploring the Holy Land 150 Years of the Palestine Exploration Fund Sheffield UK Equinox 2019 pp 212 231 Marom Roy 2022 The Oak Forest of the Sharon al Ghaba in the Ottoman Period New Insights from Historical Geographical Studies Muse 5 escholarship org Retrieved 2023 10 06 Grossman David 2004 Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine Jerusalem Magnes Press p 253 Conder and Kitchener 1882 SWP II p 159 Mills 1932 p 53 Government of Palestine Department of Statistics 1945 p 20 Government of Palestine Department of Statistics Village Statistics April 1945 Quoted in Hadawi 1970 p 74 Government of Palestine Department of Statistics Village Statistics April 1945 Quoted in Hadawi 1970 p 124 Government of Palestine Department of Statistics Village Statistics April 1945 Quoted in Hadawi 1970 p 174 a b Information of Beit Lid PalestineRemembered 2001 03 21 in Arabic 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 Dauphin C 1998 La Palestine byzantine Peuplement et Populations BAR International Series 726 in French Vol III Catalogue Oxford Archeopress ISBN 0 860549 05 4 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 Center 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 Sharon M 1999 Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae B C Vol 2 BRILL ISBN 90 04 11083 6 External links editWelcome To Bayt Lid Beit Lid Welcome to Palestine Survey of Western Palestine Map 11 IAA 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