Al-Funduq
Municipality type D in Qalqilya, State of Palestine
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Al-Funduq (Arabic: الفندق) is a Palestinian village in the Qalqilya Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northeastern West Bank, located east of Qalqilya.[3] According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,125 in 2017.[4] The village took its name from an Arabic word for "inn."[2]
Al-Funduq | |
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| Arabic transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | الفندق |
Al-Funduq | |
  Al-Funduq Location of Al-Funduq within Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°11′27″N 35°08′13″E | |
| Palestine grid | 163/177 |
| State |  State of Palestine |
| Governorate | Qalqilya |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| Area | |
• Total | 9.3 km2 (3.6 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 404–462 m (1,325–1,516 ft) |
| Population (2017) | |
• Total | 1,125 |
| • Density | 120/km2 (310/sq mi) |
| Name meaning | El Funduk, "the inn"[2] |
In 2012, Jinsafut and Al-Funduq merged under one local council.[1]
Location
History
Byzantine period
Ceramics from the Byzantine era were found here,[5] and it has been suggested that this place was Fondeka, once inhabited by Samaritans.[6][7]
Crusader period
During the Crusader period Funduq was inhabited by Muslims, according to the historian Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi. A Hanbali scholar named Ahmad ibn Abd al-Daim al-Maqaddasi al-Hanbali was born in the village in 575 AH/1180 CE. He died there in 668 AH/March 1270 CE.[8][9] Followers of the Hanbali scholar Ibn Qudamah (1146/47-1223) also lived in the village.[10] A Muslim sheikh named Abd Allah was another resident.[11][12]
Ottoman period
The place appeared in 1596 Ottoman tax registers as Funduq. It was in the Nahiya of Bani Sa'b of the Liwa of Nablus and had a population of 86 households, all Muslim, who paid a fixed tax-rate of 33.3% on wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, goats, beehives, and a press for olives or grapes, in addition to occasional revenue - a total of 10,500 akçe.[13]
A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin calls it Fondouk, a village by the road from Jaffa to Nablus.[14]
In 1838 Robinson described el-Funduk as a village in Beni Sa'ab district, west of Nablus.[15]
In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Bani Sa'b.[16]
In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described the village as "a small poor village by the main road, with wells to the north and two sacred places; it stands on high ground," and located in the Beni Sab district.[7]
British Mandate
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Funduq had a population of 66 inhabitants, all Muslims,[17] increasing in the 1931 census to 72 Muslims, with 21 houses.[18]
In the 1945 census El Funduq had a population was 100 Muslims,[19] with 1,619 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[20] Of this, 43 dunams were for plantations or irrigated land, 1,026 for cereals,[21] while 14 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[22]
Jordanian period
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Al-Funduq came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 137 inhabitants in Al-Funduq.[23]
Post-1967
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Al-Funduq has been under Israeli occupation.
After the 1995 accords, 4.8% of Jinsafut and Al-Funduq land was classified as Area B, the remaining 95.2% as Area C.[24]