Arraba, Jenin
| Arraba | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | عرّابة |
| • Also spelled | Arrabah (official) Arrabeh (unofficial) |
Northern view of Arraba
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| Coordinates: 32°24′16″N 35°12′12″E / 32.40444°N 35.20333°ECoordinates: 32°24′16″N 35°12′12″E / 32.40444°N 35.20333°E | |
| Palestine grid | 169/201 |
| Governorate | Jenin |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality (from 1995) |
| • Head of Municipality | Adnan Musa |
| Area | |
| • Jurisdiction | 39,558 dunams (39.6 km2 or 15.3 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 9,920 |
| Name meaning | "A steppe" |
Arraba (Arabic: عرّابة ALA-LC ʻArrābah), also Arrabah, Arrabeh or Arrabet Jenin, is a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank located 13 kilometers southwest of Jenin. It has an elevation of 350 meters above sea level and lies near Sahl Arraba, a plain that lies between Mount Carmel and Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, Arraba had a population 9,920 in 2007.
The lands of Arraba include Khirbet al-Hamam and Tel el-Muhafer, either of which believed to be the site of the Canaanite town Arubboth from the Books of Kings (Rubutu in the Egyptian documents) and the city Narbata of the Roman period.Tell Dothan is located just north-east of Arraba.
Arraba, 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 Jabal Sami in the liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 81 households and 31 bachelors, all Muslim. Taxes were paid on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, occasional revenues, goats and beehives, and a press for olives or grapes.
Arraba is the origin of the Abd al-Hadi clan, once a leading landowning family in the districts of Afula, Baysan, Jenin, and Nablus. The clan was traditionally opposed to the Tuqan clan of Nablus. In the 1850s the Ottoman rulers withdrew their soldiers from the district (to be used in the Crimean War), and hence open hostility ensued between the different Palestinian factions. The Abd al-Hadis sacked several villages, some of the results were shown to the British consul Rogers when he visited Arraba in 1856.
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