Saffa, Ramallah

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Saffa
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Saffa in the front, Deir Qaddis behind
Saffa in the front, Deir Qaddis behind
Saffa is located in the Palestinian territories SaffaSaffa
Location of Saffa within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 3154'25?N 3503'30?ECoordinates: 3154'25?N 3503'30?E
Palestine grid 155/145
Governorate Ramallah & al-Bireh
Government
Type Municipality
Population (2007)
Jurisdiction 3,802
Name meaning In rows[1]
Saffa (Arabic: ??????) is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh
Governorate, located 18 kilometers west of Ramallah in the northern West Bank.
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a
population of approximately 3,802 inhabitants in 2007.[2]
Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 Ottoman era
1.2 British Mandate era
1.3 Jordanian era
1.4 1967-present
2 References
3 Bibliography
4 External links
History[edit]
It has been proposed identifying Saffa with Casale Saphet of the Crusader era.[3]
Ottoman era[edit]
In the early Ottoman census of 1525-1526, it was not mentioned, but in 1538-1539,
Saffa was located in the nahiya of Quds, and named as Mazra, or cultivated land.[4]
In 1870, Victor Gurin noted that: "This village occupies a high plateau; it
contains four hundred inhabitants. Some stones, scattered or embedded in Arab
buildings, and numerous excavations in the rock, such as cisterns, tombs, quarries
and subterranean vaults, proves that the present Saffa succeeded an ancient
locality."[5] An Ottoman village list of about the same year showed that Saffa had
200 inhabitants with 67 houses, though the population count included men, only.[6]
[7]
In 1883 the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described
Suffa: "A small village standing high on a ridge, with a well to the east and a
sacred place to the south."[8]
In 1896 the population of Safa was estimated to be about 564 persons.[9]
British Mandate era[edit]
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities,
Saffa had a population of 495 Muslims,[10] increasing in the 1931 census to 644
Muslims, in 143 houses.[11]
In 1945 the population was 790 Muslims,[12] while the total land area was 9,602
dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[13] Of this, 2,536
were used for plantations and irrigable land, 2,975 for cereals,[14] while 99
dunams were classified as built-up areas.[15]
Jordanian era[edit]
In the wake of the 1948 ArabIsraeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements,
Saffa came under Jordanian rule.
1967-present[edit]
After the Six-Day War in 1967, Saffa has been under Israeli occupation
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 329
Jump up ^ 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.114.
Jump up ^ Rhricht, 1887, p. 213; cited in Finkelstein et al, 1998, p. 151
Jump up ^ Toledano, 1984, pp. 280, 298, has Saffa at location 3154'25?N 3503'05?
E; cited in Finkelstein et al, 1998, p. 151
Jump up ^ Gurin, 1875, p. 48
Jump up ^ Socin, 1879, p. 159
Jump up ^ Hartmann, 1883, p. 126, noted 47 houses
Jump up ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 7
Jump up ^ Schick, 1896, pp. 122, 124
Jump up ^ Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramallah, p. 17
Jump up ^ Mills, 1932, p. 50.
Jump up ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 26
Jump up ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics,
April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 65
Jump up ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics,
April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 112
Jump up ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics,
April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 163
Bibliography[edit]
Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of
1922. Government of Palestine.
Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine:
Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 3. London:
Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of
Palestine.
Finkelstein, Israel; Lederman, Zvi, eds. (1997). Highlands of many cultures. Tel
Aviv: Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. ISBN
965-440-007-3.
Gurin, Victor (1875). Description Gographique Historique et Archologique de la
Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (p. 109? )
Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area
ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
Hartmann, M. (1883). "Die Ortschaftenliste des Liwa Jerusalem in dem trkischen
Staatskalender fr Syrien auf das Jahr 1288 der Flucht (1871)". Zeitschrift des
Deutschen Palstina-Vereins. 6: 102149.
Mills, E., 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.
Rhricht, R. (1887). "Studien zur mittelalterlichen Geographie und Topographie
Syriens". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palstina-Vereins. 10: 195344.
Schick, C. (1896). "Zur Einwohnerzahl des Bezirks Jerusalem". Zeitschrift des
Deutschen Palstina-Vereins. 19: 120127.
Socin, A. (1879). "Alphabetisches Verzeichniss von Ortschaften des Paschalik
Jerusalem". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palstina-Vereins. 2: 135163.
Toledano, E. (1984). "The Sanjaq of Jerusalem in the Sixteenth Century: Aspects of
Topography and Population". Archivum Ottomanicum. 9: 279319.
External links[edit]
Welcome To Saffa
Survey of Western Palestine, Map 17: IAA, Wikimedia commons
Saffa village (fact sheet), Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ)
Saffa village profile, ARIJ
Saffa aerial photo, ARIJ
Locality Development Priorities and Needs in Saffa Village, ARIJ
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Gharbi al-Midya al-Mughayyir Nabi Salih Qarawat Bani Zeid Qibya Rammun Rantis Ras
Karkar Saffa Shabtin Shuqba Surda Umm Safa Yabrud
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