Nimrin was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in the early sixteenth century CE, and by the 1596 tax records the village was under the administration of the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Tiberias, part of Safad Sanjak. It had a population of 20 households, an estimated 110 persons, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as on wheat barley, wheat, olives, beehives, and goats; a total of 3,920 akçe. 1/3 of the revenue went to a waqf.[7][8]
In the nineteenth century, Nimrin grew to become a stone-built village of 250 Muslim people. It was described as being built on the slope of a hill, surrounded by arable land.[10] The Ottomans founded an elementary school in the village.[5]
A population list from about 1887 showed Nimrin to have about 300 inhabitants; all Muslims.[11]
The main economic sectors were farming and livestock, with grain being the most important crop, followed by vegetables. The Ottoman school was closed down during this period.[5]
In the 1945 statistics the population consisted of 320 Muslims,[2] and the total land area was 12,019 dunams.[3] Of this, Arabs used 7,905 dunams for cereals, 335 for plantations and irrigable land,[14] while 64 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) area.[15]
1948 war, and aftermath
During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Nimrin fell into Israeli hands on July 17, 1948, after nearby Lubya was captured at the end of Operation Dekel. Its entire population of 320 (1945) fled for unclear reasons. According to Walid Khalidi, "the site and a major part of the lands are surrounded by a fence."[5]
^Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 189. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 535
^Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6Archived 2019-04-20 at the Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
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