Zemer (, ) is an
Arab
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Arabs have been in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of years ...
local council in the
Central District of
Israel
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. It is located in the
Arab Triangle
The Triangle (, ''HaMeshulash''; , ''al-Muthallath''), formerly referred to as the Little Triangle, is a concentration of Israeli Arab towns and villages adjacent to the Green Line, located in the eastern Sharon plain among the Samarian foot ...
area, between
Baqa al-Gharbiyye and
Bat Hefer on Road 574. Zemer is the result of a merger of four villages – Bir al-Sika, Ibtan, Marja and Yama - in 1988.
History
Before the Common Era
Archaeological work in Yama brought to light settlement remains ranging from the
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
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(PPNB) to the
Ottoman period.
At Ibtan,
potsherd
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s dating from the
Hellenistic
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, Roman and
Byzantine
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period have been found.
Middle
Bronze Age
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II findings from Yama have been tentatively identified to belong to the ancient site of Yaham.
[ Yaham was mentioned in ]Egyptian
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sources regarding pharaoh
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s Thutmose III
Thutmose III (variously also spelt Tuthmosis or Thothmes), sometimes called Thutmose the Great, (1479–1425 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. He is regarded as one of the greatest warriors, military commanders, and milita ...
and Shoshenq I
Hedjkheperre Setepenre Shoshenq I (Egyptian ''ššnq''; reigned )—also known as Shashank or Sheshonk or Sheshonq Ifor discussion of the spelling, see Shoshenq—was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and the founder of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egy ...
. The 15th century BCE annals describing the campaign of Thutmose III against a coalition of Canaan
CanaanThe current scholarly edition of the Septuagint, Greek Old Testament spells the word without any accents, cf. Septuaginta : id est Vetus Testamentum graece iuxta LXX interprets. 2. ed. / recogn. et emendavit Robert Hanhart. Stuttgart : D ...
ite city-states recount how the pharaoh camped at Yaham before marching on through the pass of Aruna (today's Wadi Ara
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Wadi Ara is located northwest of t ...
), at whose exit he attacked and captured the city of Megiddo Megiddo may refer to:
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* Tel Megiddo, site of an ancient city in Israel's Jezreel valley
* Megiddo Airport, a domestic airport in Israel
* Megiddo church (Israel)
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* Megiddo Juncti ...
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Mamluk Sultanate and Ottoman Empire
In 1265, two of the villages were mentioned among the estates which the Mamluk
Mamluk or Mamaluk (; (singular), , ''mamālīk'' (plural); translated as "one who is owned", meaning "slave") were non-Arab, ethnically diverse (mostly Turkic, Caucasian, Eastern and Southeastern European) enslaved mercenaries, slave-so ...
sultan Baibars
Al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Bunduqdari (; 1223/1228 – 1 July 1277), commonly known as Baibars or Baybars () and nicknamed Abu al-Futuh (, ), was the fourth Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria, of Turkic Kipchak origin, in the Ba ...
granted his emir
Emir (; ' (), also Romanization of Arabic, transliterated as amir, is a word of Arabic language, Arabic origin that can refer to a male monarch, aristocratic, aristocrat, holder of high-ranking military or political office, or other person po ...
s after he had defeated the Crusaders
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: The whole of Ibthan (''Bathan'') was given to his emir
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Alam al-Din Sanjar al-Halabi al-Salihi'',Ibn al-Furat
Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. ʿAlī al-Miṣrī al-Ḥanafī () (1334–1405 CE), better known as Ibn al-Furāt, was an Egyptian historian, best known for his universal history, generally known as ''Taʾrīkh al-duwal wa � ...
, 1971, pp. 81, 209, 249 (map) while Yamma was divided equally between the emirs ''Saif al-Din Itamish al-Sa'di'' and ''Shams al-Din Aqsunqur''.
Yama and Ibtan appeared in Ottoman tax registers compiled in 1596, 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 ...
s'' of Qaqun and Jabal Sami, respectively, of the Nablus
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'' Liwa''. Yama had a population of 18 Muslim households and 5 bachelors, while Ibtan was indicated as empty even though it paid taxes.[Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 127, p. 138.]
In 1882, in the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine
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'', only ''Khurbet Ibthan'' was noted, with "traces of ruins and a well."[Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p]
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British Mandate and Israel
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, Bir al-Sikka had a population of 36, Ibthan 56 and Yamma 48, all Muslims
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.[Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Tulkarem, p]
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/ref> Until 1948, all four villages were administratively related to the modern-day Palestinian
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*: "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 of Deir al-Ghusun
Deir al-Ghusun () is a Palestinian people, Palestinian town in the Tulkarm Governorate, located eight kilometers northeast of the city of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank, Palestine. The town is near the Green Line (Israel), Green Line (border be ...
.[Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p]
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Zemer's population at the end of 2009 was 5,700, and its jurisdiction is 8,203 dunams. The population increased to 6,375 in 2014. The mayor of Zemer is Yassin Harzalla.Continuing to improve personal security in the Arab sector
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References
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External links
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11:
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