Tayibe
Tayibe
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| • Also spelled | Tayiba (unofficial) | |
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| Coordinates: 32°16′0″N 35°00′37″E / 32.26667°N 35.01028°ECoordinates: 32°16′0″N 35°00′37″E / 32.26667°N 35.01028°E | ||
| Grid position | 151/185 PAL | |
| District | Central | |
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| • Type | City (from 1990) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 18,662 dunams (18.662 km2 or 7.205 sq mi) | |
| Population (2015) | ||
| • Total | 40,941 | |
| Name meaning | The Goodly | |
Tayibe (also spelled Taibeh or Tayiba; Arabic: الطيبة aṭ-Ṭayyibah , Levantine pronunciation: [etˈtˤɑjbe], "the "/"the "; Hebrew: טַיִּבָּה) is an Arab city in central Israel, 12 km (7 mi) east of Kfar Saba. Part of the Triangle region, in 2015 it had a population of 40,941.
A village called Tayyibat al-Ism was on the list of lands allocated by sultan Baibars to his amirs in 663 AH (1265–1266 CE), about five centuries after the Arab conquest of Palestine. In Mamluk times, the village name appeared on documents referring to the waqf of the mosque in Hebron.
During Ottoman rule, the daftar of 1596 shows the village was under the administration of the nahiya of Bani Sab. With a population of 50 households ("khana") and 5 bachelors, all Muslim, who paid taxes on wheat, barley, summercrops (including gura, melons, beans, vegetables etc.), olive trees, beehives and goats.Pierre Jacotin called the village Taibeh on his map in 1799.
The French explorer Victor Guérin described it as a village south of Fardisya, while in the "Survey of Western Palestine" at the end of the 19th century, Tayibe was described as: "a large straggling village on the end of a slope, principally built of stone. It is supplied by cisterns and surrounded with olives."
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