Al-Yamun
| al-Yamun | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | اليامون |
 al-Yamun
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| Coordinates: 32°29′11.35″N 35°14′06.98″E / 32.4864861°N 35.2352722°ECoordinates: 32°29′11.35″N 35°14′06.98″E / 32.4864861°N 35.2352722°E | |
| Palestine grid | 171/210 |
| Governorate | Jenin |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| Area | |
| • Jurisdiction | 20,361 dunams (20.4 km2 or 7.9 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 16,383 |
| Name meaning | from personal name, |
Al-Yamun (Arabic: اليامون) is a Palestinian town located nine kilometers west of Jenin in the Jenin Governorate, in the northern West Bank. Al-Yamun's land area consists of approximately 20,000 dunams, of which 1,300 dunams is built-up area.
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 16,383 inhabitants in the 2007 census. The population is formed mainly of a number of families such as Frehat, Khamaysa, Samudi, Hushiya, Abu al-Hija, Samara 'Abahra, Zaid, Jaradat, Sharqieh and Nawhda.
The town is an ancient one, where two columns and two capitals have been reused at the door of the mosque.
Yamun, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village appeared as “Yamoun”, located in the nahiya of Sara in the liwa of Lajjun. It had a population of 28 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25 % on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 15,000 akçe.Pierre Jacotin named the village Ellamoun on his map made during the French campaign in Egypt and Syria in 1799.
In 1838 Edward Robinson noted it on his travels, and in 1870 Victor Guérin found that Yamun had 500 inhabitants.
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