An-Nuway'imah
| an-Nuway'imah | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | النويعمه |
| • Also spelled | an-Nuwei'ma (official) al-Nuwayimah (unofficial) |
 an-Nuway'imah
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| Coordinates: 31°53′30″N 35°26′10″E / 31.89167°N 35.43611°ECoordinates: 31°53′30″N 35°26′10″E / 31.89167°N 35.43611°E | |
| Palestine grid | 190/144 |
| Governorate | Jericho |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| Area | |
| • Jurisdiction | 52,600 dunams (52.6 km2 or 20.3 sq mi) |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 1,170 |
| Name meaning | Ain en Nueiameh=The spring of the soft soil |
al-Nuway'imah (Arabic: النويعمه) is a Palestinian village in the Jericho Governorate in the eastern West Bank, located five kilometers north of Jericho. It is situated in a low elevation below sea level in the central Jordan Valley. The village contains one primary and secondary school.
An-Nuway'imah, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village was located in the Nahiya of Quds of the Liwa of Quds. The population was 33 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on various agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and/or beehives, water buffaloes, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 5,800 akçe.
In 1883, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine noted the spring and the aqueduct at An-Nuway'imah.
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Nweimeh, together with Al-Auja and ad-Duyuk had a population of 332; 10 Christians and 322 Muslims. In the 1931 census Nu'eima had a population of 179 Muslims, in 43 houses.
In 1945, the village's population was 240 Muslims and it had jurisdiction over 52,600 dunams of land. Of this, 117 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 1,157 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 728 for cereals, while a total of 50,614 dunams were non-cultivable areas.
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