Al-Funduq

Al-Funduq (Arabic: الفندق) was a Palestinian village in the Qalqilya Governorate 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 one Arabic word for "inn."[2]

Al-Funduq
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicالفندق
Al-Funduq
Al-Funduq
Al-Funduq is located in State of Palestine
Al-Funduq
Al-Funduq
Location of Al-Funduq within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°11′27″N 35°08′13″E
Palestine grid163/177
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateQalqilya
Government
 • TypeVillage council
Area
 • Total9,335 dunams (9.3 km2 or 3.6 sq mi)
Elevation
[1]
404−462 m (−1,112 ft)
Population
 (2017)
 • Total1,125
 • Density120/km2 (310/sq mi)
Name meaningEl Funduk, "the inn"[2]

In 2012 it was decided that Jinsafut and Al-Funduq should be merged under one local council.[1]

Location

Al-Funduq and Jinsafut are located 16 kilometers (9.9 mi) east of Qalqiliya. It is bordered by Immatin to the east, Deir Istiya to the south, Wadi Qana (in Salfit Governorate) to the west and Hajja to the north.[1]

History

Byzantine period

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here,[5] and it has been suggested that this was the place Fondeka, once inhabited by Samaritans.[6][7]

Crusader period

During the Crusader period the village 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, dying 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] and during this period al-Funduq was home to a well-known Muslim sheikh named Abd Allah.[11][12]

Ottoman period

The place appeared in 1596 Ottoman tax registers as Funduq, being in the Nahiya of Bani Sa'b of the Liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 86 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, goats and beehives, and a press for olives or grapes, in addition to occasional revenues and a fixed sum for people of the Nablus area; a total of 10,500 akçe.[13]

A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin named it Fondouk, as a village by the road from Jaffa to Nablus.[14]

In 1838 Robinson noted el-Funduk as a village in Beni Sa'ab district, west of Nablus.[15]

In 1870 Victor Guérin noted El-Fondouk from Fara'ata, but did not visit it.[16]

In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Bani Sa'b.[17]

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,[18] increasing in the 1931 census to 72 Muslims, with 21 houses.[19]

In the 1945 census El Funduq had a population was 100 Muslims,[20] with 1,619 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[21] Of this, 43 dunams were for plantations or irrigated land, 1,026 for cereals,[22] while 14 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[23]

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.[24]

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.[25]

References
  1. Jinsafut Village Profile (including Al Funduq Locality), ARIJ, 2013, p. 4
  2. Palmer, 1881, p. 182
  3. The Segregation Wall hits more Palestinian lands in Qalqilyia district Archived 2011-05-19 at the Wayback Machine Land Research Center (LRC) & The Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem (ARIJ). 2004-06-15.
  4. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (February 2018). "Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census 2017" (PDF). p. 71. Retrieved May 19, 2023.
  5. Dauphin, 1998, p. 800
  6. Neubauer, 1868, p. 172
  7. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 164
  8. Ellenblum, 2003, p. 244
  9. Drory, 1988, pp. 102-103
  10. Drory, 1988, p. 97
  11. Talmon-Heller, 1994, p. 112
  12. Talmon-Heller, 2002, pp. 136-142
  13. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 139
  14. Karmon, 1960, p. 156 Archived 2019-12-22 at the Wayback Machine
  15. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 127
  16. Guérin, 1875, p. 180
  17. Grossman, David (2004). Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. p. 255.
  18. Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 25
  19. Mills, 1932, p. 61
  20. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 18
  21. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 59 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
  22. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 106
  23. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 156
  24. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 26
  25. Jinsafut Village Profile (including Al Funduq Locality), ARIJ, 2013, p. 17

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