Beit Imrin
| Beit Imrin | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | بيت امرين |
| • Also spelled | Beit Imrin (official) Bayt Umrin (unofficial) |
Beit Imrin, from the west
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| Coordinates: 32°17′32″N 35°12′56″E / 32.29222°N 35.21556°ECoordinates: 32°17′32″N 35°12′56″E / 32.29222°N 35.21556°E | |
| Palestine grid | 170/188 |
| Governorate | Nablus |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council (from 1966) |
| • Head of Municipality | Basheer Samarah |
| Area | |
| • Jurisdiction | 12,100 dunams (12.1 km2 or 4.7 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 2,821 |
| Name meaning | "House of Princes", "The House of Imrin" |
Beit Imrin (Arabic: بيت امرين, transliterated as "House of Princes") is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 18 kilometers northwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the village had a population of 2,821 inhabitants in 2007.
Beit Imrin is an agricultural village with the main products being pulses, grains, vegetables, olives, grapes, almonds and figs. There is a girls' primary school and a boys' secondary school in the village. Other public facilities include a health clinic, telephone and postal services.
Ceramics from the Byzantine and Early Muslim eras have been found here.
According to the Beit Imrin Village Council, Beit Imrin was founded by Arabs from nearby Burqa and the Bani Hassan tribe of Transjordan, whose members also populated Qarawat Bani Hassan. The town of Sebastia is located to the southwest, the villages of Ijnisinya and Nisf Jubeil to the south, Burqa to the northwest and Yasid to the east.
In 1517, Beit Imrin was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine. In 1596, it appeared in Ottoman tax registers as a village in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Jabal Sami in the Nablus Sanjak. It had a population of nineteen households and two bachelors, all Muslim, and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, occasional revenues, goats and beehives, and a press for olives or grapes; a total of 13,200 akçe.
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