Arab village in northern Israel
Place in Haifa, Israel
Umm al-Qutuf (Arabic : أمّ القـُطـُف ; Hebrew : אֻם אל-קֻטוּף ) is an Arab village in northern Israel. Located in the triangle , it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council . In 2022 it had a population of 1,201.[ 2]
History
Pottery remains from the Hellenistic ,[ 3] Roman ,[ 3] [ 4] and Byzantine eras have been found here,[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] as have pottery remains from the early Muslim and the Middle Ages.[ 3]
Ottoman era
In 1882, the PEF 's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found at Kh. Umm el Kutuf only "ruined walls."[ 6]
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine , conducted by the British Mandate authorities , Kherbet Umm al-Qatuf had a population of 11 Muslims.[ 7]
A panoramic view from west on Umm al-Qutuf (center) and Barta'a (right); the village on the far hill on the left is Qazir
See also
References
^ Palmer, 1881, p. 150
^ a b "Regional Statistics" . Israel Central Bureau of Statistics . Retrieved 21 March 2024 .
^ a b c d Zertal, 2016, p. 163
^ a b Haddad, 2012, Umm el-Qutuf
^ Dauphin, 19918, p. 750
^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 64
^ Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 30
Bibliography
Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 . Government of Palestine.
Conder, C.R. ; Kitchener, H.H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology . Vol. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund .
Dauphin, C. (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations . BAR International Series 726 (in French). Vol. III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. ISBN 0-860549-05-4 .
Haddad, Elie (2012-03-22). "Umm el-Qutuf" . Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel (124).
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 .
Zertal, A. (2016). The Manasseh Hill Country Survey . Vol. 3. Boston: BRILL. ISBN 978-9004312302 .
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