Kafr Zibad
| Kafr Zibad | |
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| • Arabic | كفر زيباد |
 Kafr Zibad
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| Coordinates: 32°13′27″N 35°04′16″E / 32.22417°N 35.07111°ECoordinates: 32°13′27″N 35°04′16″E / 32.22417°N 35.07111°E | |
| Palestine grid | 156/181 |
| Governorate | Tulkarm |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 1,306 |
Kafr Zibad (Arabic: كفر زيباد) is a Palestinian village in the Tulkarm Governorate in the eastern West Bank, located 17 kilometers South of Tulkarm.
The name of Kafr Zibad as thought originally from Zabad, it's Semite name which means generosity.E. H. Palmer noted that the name meant the village of Zebed.
Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.
Kafr Zibad was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared under the that name in the tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Bani Sa'b of the Liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 50 households, all Muslims. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on various agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and/or beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues" and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 10,280 akçe.
In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine noted at Kafr Zibad: "A village of moderate size on a small plateau, overhanging the valley on the north of it. It is of stone. A steep ascent, with a cistern on the north, on the south a fig-garden, and beyond this a few olives, where the tents of the Survey party were pitched. Near them was a rock-cut tomb. The water supply is from cisterns."
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kufr Zaibad had a population of 260 Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 469 Muslims, in 96 houses.
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