Jarba ( Arabic : جربا ) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate .
4-566: Pottery sherds from the Byzantine (10%), early Muslim (30%) and the Middle Ages (30%) have been found at Jarba. Jarba, like all of Palestine , was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. About 30% of the pottery sherds found in the village date back to this period. In the 1596 Ottoman tax registers , it was located in the nahiya of Jabal Sami, part of Sanjak of Nablus . Jarba
8-428: A population of 31 Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 65 Muslim, in a total of 17 houses. In the 1944/5 statistics the population was 100, all Muslims, with 3,530 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. 100 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,553 for cereals, while 2 dunams were built-up (urban) land. In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , and after
12-574: The District of esh-Sha'rawiyeh esh-Shurkiyeh , the eastern part. In 1870, Victor Guérin noted it as a small village situated on a neighboring hill from Misilyah . In 1882 the PEF 's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Jurba as: "a small village on the side of a slope, with olives to the south." In the 1922 census of Palestine , conducted by the British Mandate authorities , Jarba had
16-449: Was listed as an entirely Muslim village with a population of 11 households and 2 bachelors. The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, and goats and/or beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a tax on people from the Nablus area, a total of 1,500 akçe . In 1838 el-Jurba was noted as a village in
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