Talfit
Municipality type D in Nablus, State of Palestine
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Talfit (Arabic: تلفيت)[2] is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank, located southeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, it had a population of 3,591 in 2017.[1]
Talfit | |
|---|---|
| Arabic transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | تلفيت |
 Talfit from the west | |
  Talfit Location of Talfit within Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°05′19″N 35°17′29″E | |
| Palestine grid | 177/165 |
| State | State of Palestine |
| Governorate | Nablus |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| • Head of Municipality | Raed Ershed |
| Population (2017)[1] | |
• Total | 3,591 |
Location
History
Potsherds from the Iron Age II, Persian and Byzantine/Ayyubid eras have been found.[4]
Röhricht suggested identifying Talfit with Tarphin, mentioned in a Crusader text from 1154,[5] but a later author (Abel) preferred to locate it at Kh. Tarfein to the north of Bir Zeit.[6] According to Finkelstein, Kh. Tarfein better fits the archaeological finds.[4]
Potsherds from the Mamluk era has also been found.[4]
Ottoman era
In 1596, Talfit appeared in Ottoman tax registers as a village in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal in the Liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 12 Muslim households. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 33,3% on wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, and goats or beehives; a total of 1,500 akçe.[7] Potsherds from the early Ottoman era has also been found here.[4]
In 1838 Edward Robinson noted Telfit located in El-Beitawy district, east of Nablus.[8]
The PEF's Survey of Western Palestine noted in 1882 that the place resembled Kabalan, the latter being described as a village of moderate size, on high ground, surrounded by olive trees. Talfit was supplied with water from a well called 'Ain Telfit.[9]
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Talfit had a population of 352, all Muslims,[10] increasing in the 1931 census to 464, still all Muslim, in 116 occupied houses.[11]
In the 1945 statistics, Telfit had a population of 610 Muslims,[12] with 6,258 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[13] Of this, 3,309 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,228 used for cereals,[14] while 49 dunams were built-up land.[15]
Jordanian era
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Talfit came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 904 inhabitants.[16]
1967-present
After the Six-Day War in 1967, Talfit has been under Israeli occupation.
After the 1995 accords, 97% of the village land is classified as Area B land, while the remaining 3% is Area C.[3]