Kafr Dan
| Kafr Dan | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | كفر دان |
| • Also spelled | Kufr Dan (official) |
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| Coordinates: 32°28′43″N 35°15′15″E / 32.47861°N 35.25417°ECoordinates: 32°28′43″N 35°15′15″E / 32.47861°N 35.25417°E | |
| Palestine grid | 174/209 |
| Governorate | Jenin |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 5,148 |
| Name meaning | The village of Adhan, from personal name, meaning in Arabic “the call to prayer” |
Kafr Dan (Arabic: كفر دان) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate, located 8 km northwest of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, the town had a population of 5,148 in 2007.
Kafr Dan is located north-west of Jenin; just east of Al-Yamun and north of Burqin.
Kafr Qud, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village appeared as "Kafradan”, located in the nahiya of Sara in the liwa of Lajjun. It had a population of 9 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 6,000 akçe.
In 1838 Edward Robinson noted it among many other villages on the plain; Lajjun, Umm al-Fahm, Ti'inik, Silat al-Harithiya, Al-Yamun and el Barid.
In 1870 Victor Guérin found at Kafr Dan “a broken column and a certain number of cut stones of ancient appearance.” Guérin estimated that the village had 300 inhabitants.
In 1882 Kafr Dan was described as a "village of moderate size on the slope of the hills, built of stone, with olives below, and a well on the west,” in the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine. They called the village “Kefr Adan”.
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