Fassuta
Fassouta
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| • ISO 259 | P̄assúṭa |
Entrance to Fassouta
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 Fassouta
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| Coordinates: 33°2′58″N 35°18′21″E / 33.04944°N 35.30583°ECoordinates: 33°2′58″N 35°18′21″E / 33.04944°N 35.30583°E | |
| Grid position | 179/272 PAL |
| District | Northern |
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| • Type | Local council |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 3,026 |
| Name meaning | Fassute, personal name |
Fassuta is an Arab town on the northwestern slopes of Mount Meron in the Northern District of Israel, south of the Lebanese border. In 2015 it had a population of 3,026.
In the Crusader era Fassuta was known as Fassove, and in 1183 it was noted that Godfrey de Tor sold the land of the village to Joscelin III. In 1220 Jocelyn III´s daughter Beatrix de Courtenay and her husband Otto von Botenlauben, Count of Henneberg, sold their land, including Fassove, to the Teutonic Knights.
Fassuta was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and by 1596 it was part of the Nahiya of Akka of the Liwa of Safad. It had a population of 12 Muslim households and 3 Muslim bachelors. It paid taxes on wheat, barley, fruit trees, and goats or beehives.
In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Fassuta as "a village, built of stone, containing about 200 Christians, situated on ridge, with gardens of figs, olives, and arable land. There are two cisterns in the village, and a good spring near."
At the time of the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate, Fassuta had a population of 459, 444 Christians and 15 Muslims, while in the 1931 census, the combined population of Fassuta and Mansura was 507 Palestinian Christians and 81 Muslims, living in a total of 129 houses.
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