Tammun
| Tammun | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | طمّون |
| • Also spelled | Tamoun (official) Tamon (unofficial) |
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| Coordinates: 32°17′03″N 35°23′09″E / 32.28417°N 35.38583°ECoordinates: 32°17′03″N 35°23′09″E / 32.28417°N 35.38583°E | |
| Palestine grid | 186/187 |
| Governorate | Tubas |
| Founded | 15th century |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality (from 1997) |
| • Head of Municipality | Muhammad Ahmad Bsharat |
| Area | |
| • Jurisdiction | 81,000 dunams (81.0 km2 or 31.3 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 10,795 |
| Name meaning | "Quiet", or "To Overflow" |
Tammun (Arabic: طمّون) is a Palestinian town in the Tubas Governorate, located 13 kilometers northeast of Nablus and five kilometers south of Tubas in the northeastern West Bank. Tammun has a population of approximately 10,795 inhabitants in 2007.
In 1854, Tammun was identified as the Biblical town of Tabbath in Ephraim by Biblical scholar van de Velde. However, Tabbath is now identified with a site in Jordan. The town's name derives from the Arabic word tammen, meaning "quiet".
Tammun's modern history dates from the 15th century. The town was founded by a group of Bedouins from the Arabian Peninsula seeking to find a safe location in Palestine with a view of other nearby localities. In 1596 it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as "Tammun", in the nahiya of Jabal Sami in the liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 15 households and 3 bachelors, all Muslim. Taxes were paid on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, occasional revenues, goats and beehives.
Over the past four centuries, Arabs from the towns of Kafr Qaddum and Halhul have settled in the town. In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described Tammun as "A good-sized village at the foot of the mountain, with open ground to the north. The village stands high, with olives to the south.
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Tammun had a population of 1,345, all Muslim. This had increased in the 1931 census of Palestine, when Tammun, (including Atuf), had 316 occupied houses and a population of 1599, again all Muslim.
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