Ta'anakh (biblical)
| Ti'inik | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | تعّنك |
 Ti'inik
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| Coordinates: 32°31′11″N 35°13′16″E / 32.51972°N 35.22111°ECoordinates: 32°31′11″N 35°13′16″E / 32.51972°N 35.22111°E | |
| Palestine grid | 170/214 |
| Governorate | Jenin |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 1,095 |
| Name meaning | sandy |
Ti'inik (Arabic: تعّنك; Hebrew: תיעניכ), also transliterated Ta'anakh, Ti’innik or Taanach, is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 13 km Northwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. The neighbouring Israeli region of Ta'anakh is named after the town.
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 1,095 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.
Just to the east of Ti'inik is a 40-metre-high mound which was the site of the biblical city Taanach or Tanach, a Levitical city allocated to the Kohathites. Twelve Akkadian cuneiform tablets were found here. Approximately one third of the names on these tablets are of Hurrian origin, indicating a significant northern ethnic presence. The main remains visible today are of an 11th-century Abbasid palace.
Ti'inik, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village appeared as "Ta'inniq”, located in the nahiya of Sara in the liwa of Lajjun. It had a population of 13 households, all Muslim. They paid a taxes on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 7,000 akçe.
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