Palestinian
Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine.
*: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...
village in the
Qalqilya Governorate
The Qalqilya Governorate or Qalqiliya Governorate () is an administrative area of Palestine in the northwestern West Bank. Its capital or ''muhfaza'' (seat) is the city of Qalqilya that borders the Green Line.
History
During the Ottoman pe ...
of the
State of Palestine
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, in the northeastern
West Bank
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, located east of
Qalqilya
Qalqilya or Qalqiliya () is a city in the West Bank, Palestine, which serves as the administrative center of the Qalqilya Governorate. The city had a population of 51,683 in 2017. Qalqilya is surrounded by the Israeli West Bank barrier, Israeli We ...
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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, the village had a population of 1,125 in 2017. The village took its name from an Arabic word for "inn."
In 2012,
Jinsafut
Jinsafut (, Jinṣāfūṭ) is a Palestinian village in the Qalqilya Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northeastern West Bank, located east of Qalqilya. increasing in the 1931 census to 315 Muslims, with 76 houses. In the 1945 cen ...
and Al-Funduq merged under one local council.
Location
Al-Funduq is located east of
Qalqiliya
Qalqilya or Qalqiliya () is a city in the West Bank, Palestine, which serves as the administrative center of the Qalqilya Governorate. The city had a population of 51,683 in 2017. Qalqilya is surrounded by the Israeli West Bank wall, with a narr ...
. It is bordered by
Immatain
Immatin () is a Palestinian village located in the northwestern West Bank, in the Qalqilya Governorate of the State of Palestine, about seventeen kilometers southwest of Nablus.
Since 2012, the village of Farratin is included in Immatin.
Loca ...
to the east,
Deir Istiya
Deir Istiya () is a Palestinians, Palestinian town of 3,696 in the Salfit Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, southwest of Nablus. The Built up area, built-up area of Deir Istiya is 74 dunams, and its old city has ab ...
to the south,
Wadi Qana
Wadi Qana (, ) is a wadi with an intermittent stream meandering westwards from Huwara, south of Nablus, in the West Bank, Palestine, down to Jaljulia in Israel, from where it flows into the Yarkon River, of which it is a tributary.
Geog ...
(in Salfit Governorate) to the west and Hajja to the north.
History
Byzantine period
Ceramics from the
Byzantine
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era were found here, and it has been suggested that this place was ''Fondeka'', once inhabited by
Samaritans
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.Neubauer, 1868, p 172 /ref>Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p 164 /ref>
Crusader period
During the
Crusader
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period Funduq was inhabited by Muslims, according to the historian
Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi
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. A
Hanbali
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scholar named Ahmad ibn Abd al-Daim al-Maqaddasi al-Hanbali was born in the village in 575 AH/1180 CE. He died there in 668 AH/March 1270 CE.Ellenblum, 2003, p 244 /ref> Followers of the Hanbali scholar
Ibn Qudamah
Ibn Qudama (January/February 11477 July 1223) was an ulama, Islamic scholar and aqidah, theologian of the Hanbali, Hanbali school of Sunni Islam. Born in the Palestine (region), Palestine region, Ibn Qudama authored many important treatises on fi ...
(1146/47-1223) also lived in the village. A Muslim
sheikh
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named Abd Allah was another resident.
Ottoman period
The place appeared in 1596 Ottomantax registers as ''Funduq. '' It was in the ''
Nahiya
A nāḥiyah ( , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiyeh, nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level divisi ...
Nablus
Nablus ( ; , ) is a State of Palestine, Palestinian city in the West Bank, located approximately north of Jerusalem, with a population of 156,906. Located between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, it is the capital of the Nablus Governorate and a ...
and had a population of 86 households, all
Muslim
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, who paid a fixed tax-rate of 33.3% on wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, goats, beehives, and a press for olives or grapes, in addition to occasional revenue - a total of 10,500
akçe
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Pierre Jacotin
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The maps were drafted in 1799–1800 during Napole ...
calls it ''Fondouk,'' a village by the road from
Jaffa
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to
Nablus
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.
In 1838
Robinson Robinson may refer to:
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* Robinson (name)
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* Robinson Crusoe, the main character, and title of a novel by Daniel Defoe, published in 1719
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described ''el-Funduk'' as a village in ''Beni Sa'ab'' district, west of Nablus.
In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the ''
nahiya
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'' (sub-district) of Bani Sa'b.
In 1882, the PEF's ''
Survey of Western Palestine
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'' described the village as "a small poor village by the main road, with wells to the north and two sacred places; it stands on high ground," and located in the ''Beni Sab'' district.
British Mandate
In the
1922 census of Palestine
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The reported population was 757,182, including the military and persons of foreign nationality. The divis ...
conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Funduq had a population of 66 inhabitants, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p 25 /ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 72 Muslims, with 21 houses.
In the 1945 census El Funduq had a population was 100 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p 18 /ref> with 1,619
dunam
A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; ; ; ), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area analogous in role (but not equal) to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amo ...
s of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 43 dunams were for plantations or irrigated land, 1,026 for cereals, while 14 dunams were built-up (urban) land.
Jordanian period
In the wake of the
1948 Arab–Israeli War
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, and after the
1949 Armistice Agreements
The 1949 Armistice Agreements were signed between Israel and Egypt,Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 137 inhabitants in Al-Funduq.
Post-1967
Since the
Six-Day War
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in 1967, Al-Funduq has been under
Israeli occupation
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Jinsafut
Jinsafut (, Jinṣāfūṭ) is a Palestinian village in the Qalqilya Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northeastern West Bank, located east of Qalqilya. increasing in the 1931 census to 315 Muslims, with 76 houses. In the 1945 cen ...
and Al-Funduq land was classified as Area B, the remaining 95.2% as
Area C
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Al-Funduq's residents originally came from Jab'it, near
Duma
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. The village also absorbed refugees from
Kafr Qara
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.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. 353
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Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem
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