Yasid
Yasid (Arabic: ياصيد) is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 15 kilometers northeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 2,291 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 2,505 by 2017.[1][3]
Yasid | |
|---|---|
| Arabic transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | ياصيد |
Yasid | |
Yasid Location of Yasid within Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°17′48″N 35°16′40″E / 32.29667°N 35.27778°E | |
| Palestine grid | 176/189 |
| State | State of Palestine |
| Governorate | Nablus |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| Population (2017)[1] | |
| • Total | 2,505 |
| Name meaning | from personal name[2] |
Location edit
Yasid is located 8.6 km north of Nablus. It is bordered by Wadi al Far’a to the east, the village of Siris to the north, Beit Imrin and Jaba’ to the west, and Talluza and ‘Asira ash Shamaliya villages to the south.[4]
History edit
Sherds from Iron Age (I-II)[5] Persian[5] early and late Roman,[5] Byzantine,[5][6] Early Islamic[5] and Medieval[5] periods have been found here.
Yasid was identified with Yaṣat or Yaset (Hebrew: יצת), mentioned in the 9th-8th century BCE Samaria Ostraca (No. 9,-10, 19 and 47)[7] and later in the 6th-7th century Mosaic of Reḥob as a Jewish village in the region of Sebastia which was inhabited mostly by non-Jews and, therefore, agricultural produce obtained from the area could be taken by Jews without the normal restrictions imposed during the Sabbatical years, or the need for tithing.[8]
Ottoman era edit
Yasid, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596 it was a part of the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Jabal Sami which was under the administration of the liwa ("district") of Nablus. The village had a population of 47 households and 2 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, beehives and/or goats, in addition to occasional revenues and a tax on Muslims in the Nablus area; a total of 7,340 akçe.[9]
In 1838, Yasid was located in the Haritheh District, north of Nablus.[10]
In 1882, in the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP), Yasid was described as "A village of moderate size on a knoll, with a few trees."[11]
British Mandate era edit
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Yasid had a population of 308 Muslims,[12] increasing in the 1931 census to 372; 369 Muslims and 3 Christians, in 67 houses.[13]
In the 1945 statistics, Yasid had a population of 480 Muslims[14] while the total land area was 9,222 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[15] Of this, 860 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 4,040 for cereals,[16] while 43 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[17]
Jordanian era edit
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Yasid came under Jordanian rule.
In 1961, the population was 714.[18]
Post 1967 edit
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Yasid has been under Israeli occupation, and the same year the population was recorded as 816.[19]
After the 1995 accords, all of the land in Yasid is classified as Area A land.[20]
Demography edit
Local origins edit
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. 196
- ^ Projected Mid -Year Population for Nablus Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 2012-04-14 at the Wayback Machine Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
- ^ Yasid Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 4
- ^ a b c d e f Zertal, 2004, pp. 508-509
- ^ Dauphin, 1998, p. 763
- ^ Zertal, Adam (2004). The Manasseh Hill Country Survey, Volume I: The Shechem Syncline. Leiden. p. 77. ISBN 978-90-474-1352-3. OCLC 1294374548.
The survey findings support its accepted identification with Yaset (y-s-t) of the Samaria Ostraca, nos. 9–10, 19 and 47.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Aaron Demsky, The Permitted Villages of Sebaste in the Reḥov Mosaic, Israel Exploration Journal (vol. 29, no. 3/4), Jerusalem 1979, p. 191.
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 126
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1941, vol 3, 2nd Appendix, p. 129
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 158
- ^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, p. 24
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 66
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 19
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 61
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 108
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 158
- ^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 26
- ^ Perlmann, Vol 1, Tab 2: Yasid.
- ^ Yasid Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 14
- ^ Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 351
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.
- 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.
- 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).]
- 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.
- Zertal, A. (2004). The Manasseh Hill Country Survey. Vol. 1. Boston: BRILL. ISBN 9004137564.
External links edit
- Welcome To Yasid
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Yasid Village Profile, Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ)
- , ARIJ
- Development Priorities and Needs in Yasid, ARIJ