Template:Infobox Palestinian Authority muni Beit 'Anan (Arabic: بيت عنان) is a Palestinian village in northwest Jerusalem[1] under the jurisdiction of the Jerusalem Municipality. In 2010, it had a population of 4,982. Some residents of Beit 'Anan hold Israeli identity cards, while others hold Palestinian identity cards.
History
Beit 'Anan was a fief of the Holy Sepulchre in the twelfth century.[2]
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 28 households, all Muslim.[3]
In 1863 the French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village, and estimated that it had 600 inhabitants,[4] while an official Ottoman village list of about 1870 showed that "Bet 'Anan" had 59 houses and a population of 220, though the population count included only men.[5] In 1883, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described the village as "a small village on top of a flat ridge; near a main road to the west are remains of a Khan with water, and about a mile to the east is a spring."[2]
Beit 'Anan was captured by British forces in the 1917 Battle for Jerusalem during their campaign in Palestine against the Ottomans.[6]
In a census conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, "Bait 'Inan" had a population of 509, all Muslims,[7] increasing in the 1931 census to a population of 654, still all Muslims, in 162 houses.[8] In 1945 Beit I'nan had a population of 820, all Arabs, with 10,105 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[9] Of this, 2,015 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 2,471 used for cereals,[10] while 63 dunams were built-up land.[11] In 2012 Beit Anan population was near five thousand with four thousand more migrants and their descendants.. There are nearly 2,000 living in Jordan, most in Zarqa. More than 2,000 live in the United States, most of whom live in the Paterson, New Jersey area. Others live in Louisiana, Illinois, Ohio, Florida and few in Michigan. Some of its descendants live in Brazil. Migration from Beit Anan began in the early fifties. Then, nearly all headed to Brazil via the sea. Since the late sixties and until today migration from Beit Anan has been nearly entirely to the United States.
Education and culture
Beit 'Anan has an UNRWA school for girls with 560 students, two elementary schools for boys and three kindergartens. The Abu Ayob al-Ansary mosque is located in Beit 'Anan. The village has two health clinics and several sports clubs. In 2009, a four-day culture festival was held in Beit Anan attended by more than 15,000 people.[12]
Biddu enclave
Beit 'Anan along with Biddu, Beit Duqqu, Beit Surik, Qatanna, al Qubeida, Beit Ijaz, Kharayib Umm al Lahim and at Tira form the "Biddu enclave." The enclave will be linked to Ramallah by underpasses and a fenced road.[13]
According to the NGO Land Research Centre, 143 families living in Beit 'Anan had 607 dunams of land expropriated from them for the construction of the Israeli separation barrier. The route of the barrier begins from the southern side of the village, on the border of Kharayib Umm al Lahim lands, extending to Beit Laqia northwest of Beit 'Anan. According to village council of Beit 'Anan, most of the land is registered in the Tabu. The planned route of the wall is very close to homes in Beit 'Anan. Ten wells (al Mesqa) are located in the area, two of them dry.[14]
References
- ^ "Promoting Palestinian culture presents challenge to occupation and celebrates heritage". Alquds2009.org. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
- ^ a b Conder and Kitchener, 1883, p. 16
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 121.
- ^ Guérin, 1874, p. 348
- ^ Socin, 1879, p. 145
- ^ The battle for Palestine 1917, John D. Grainger
- ^ J. B. Barron, ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine. Table VII, Sub-district of Jerusalem, p. 15.
- ^ Mills, 1932, p. 38
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in S. Hadawi, Village Statistics, 1945. PLO Research Center, 1970, p. 56
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in S. Hadawi, Village Statistics, 1945. PLO Research Center, 1970, p. 101
- ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in S. Hadawi, Village Statistics, 1945. PLO Research Center, 1970, p. 151
- ^ "Promoting Palestinian culture presents challenge to occupation and celebrates heritage". Alquds2009.org. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
- ^ OCHA
- ^ Monitoring Israeli Colonization Activities, July 2004, Land Research Centre. (Retrieved on 17 September 2013).
Bibliography
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Guérin, Victor (1868). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. Vol 1; Judee, pt. 1.
- Hadawi, Sami (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.
- E. Mills, ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas (PDF). 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.
- A. Socin (1879). "Alphabetisches Verzeichniss von Ortschaften des Paschalik Jerusalem". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 2: 135–163.