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 ...
town in the
Nablus Governorate
The Nablus Governorate () is an administrative district of Palestine located in the Central Highlands of the West Bank, 53 km north of Jerusalem. It covers the area around the city of Nablus which serves as the ''muhfaza'' (seat) of the go ...
in northern
West Bank
The West Bank is located on the western bank of the Jordan River and is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip) that make up the State of Palestine. A landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...
, located 15 kilometers northeast of
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 ...
. According to the
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
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(PCBS), the town had a population of 2,291 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 2,505 by 2017.
Location
Yasid is located 8.6 km north of
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 ...
. It is bordered by Wadi al Far’a to the east, the village of
Siris Siris may refer to:
Mythology
*Siris (goddess), the Mesopotamian goddess of beer
*Siris (mythology), a figure in Greek mythology; also known as Sinis
Places
*Siris, Magna Graecia, an ancient city in southern Italy
*Siris, Sardinia, an Italian comm ...
to the north,
Beit Imrin
Beit Imrin (, transliterated as "House of Princes") is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 18 kilometers northwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the village ...
Talluza
Talluza () is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, located northeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, it had a population of 2,375 ...
Sherd
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Iron Age
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Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
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early and late
Roman
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of Roman civilization
*Epistle to the Romans, shortened to Romans, a letter w ...
,
Byzantine
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,Early Islamic and Medieval periods have been found here.
Yasid was identified with Yaṣat or Yaset (), mentioned in the 9th-8th century BCE
Samaria Ostraca
The Samaria Ostraca are 102 ostraca found in 1910 in excavations in ancient Samaria (modern-day Sebastia, Nablus) led by George Andrew Reisner of the Harvard Semitic Museum. These ostraca were found in the treasury of the palace of Ahab, king of ...
(No. 9,-10, 19 and 47) and later in the 6th-7th century Mosaic of Reḥob as a
Jewish
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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
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.
Ottoman era
Yasid, like the rest of
Palestine
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, was incorporated into the
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...
in 1517, and in the
census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
of 1596 it was a part of 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 ...
'' ("subdistrict") of Jabal Sami which was under the administration of the '' liwa'' ("district") of
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 ...
. The village had a population of 47 households and 2 bachelors, all
Muslim
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. 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
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.
In 1838, Yasid was located in the ''Haritheh'' District, north of Nablus.
In 1882, in the PEF's ''
Survey of Western Palestine
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'' (SWP), Yasid was described as "A village of moderate size on a knoll, with a few trees."
British Mandate era
In the
1922 census of Palestine
The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922.
The reported population was 757,182, including the military and persons of foreign nationality. The divis ...
conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Yasid had a population of 308 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, p 24 /ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 372; 369 Muslims and 3 Christians, in 67 houses.Mills, 1932, p 66 /ref>
In the 1945 statistics, Yasid had a population of 480 MuslimsGovernment of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p 19 /ref> while the total land area was 9,222
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, according to an official land and population survey.
Of this, 860 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 4,040 for cereals, while 43 dunams were classified as built-up areas.
Jordanian era
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.
In 1961, the population was 714.
Post 1967
Since the
Six-Day War
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in 1967, Yasid has been under
Israeli occupation
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, and the same year the population was recorded as 816.
After the 1995 accords, all of the land in Yasid is classified as Area A land.
Demography
Local origins
The residents of Yasid have their origins in Shefa-Amr. Several families live in Yasid, such as the Thaher family, descending from
Galilee
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''Galilee'' encompasses the area north of the Mount Carmel-Mount Gilboa ridge and ...
in the
18th century
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AD. This family owns castles and ancient historical buildings dating back hundreds of years. In addition, there is the Mashaqi family, which resides in the eastern part of the town.
Levy Economics Institute
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of
Bard College
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. 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).]
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Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem
The Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ; ) is a Palestinian NGO founded in 1990 with its main office in Bethlehem in the West Bank. ARIJ is actively working on research projects in the fields of management of natural resources, water m ...