Zawiya, Jenin
| Az-Zawiya | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | الزاوية |
 Az-Zawiya
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| Coordinates: 32°22′28″N 35°13′56″E / 32.37444°N 35.23222°ECoordinates: 32°22′28″N 35°13′56″E / 32.37444°N 35.23222°E | |
| Palestine grid | 172/198 |
| Governorate | Jenin |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 770 |
| Name meaning | The corner, or hermitage |
Az-Zawiya (Arabic: الزاوية; also spelled Zawiyeh) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate in the northern West Bank, located south of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, the village had a population of 770 in 2007.
Tombs and a columbarium have been cut into the rock, and ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.
In 1517, Zawiya was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine. In 1596, it appeared in Ottoman tax registers as a village named Zawiyat, or alternatively Sayh Mohammad Rifa'i, in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Jabal Sami in the Nablus Sanjak. It had a population of 12 households, all Muslim.
In 1870, Victor Guérin described as having a small number of houses, situated on a mound.
In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described it as: "A hamlet on a hill side, with a well to the west. It seems to take its name from the sudden twist in the road near the place."
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Zawieh had a population 45 Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 76 Muslim, in a total of 17 houses.
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