Jarba () is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate.
History Pottery sherds from the Byzantine (10%), early Muslim (30%) and the Middle Ages (30%) have been found at Jarba.Zertal, 2004, pp. 226- 227
Ottoman era Jarba, like all of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. About 30% of the pottery sherds found in the village date back to this period. In the 1596 Ottoman tax registers, it was located in the nahiya of Jabal Sami, part of Sanjak of Nablus. Jarba was listed as an entirely Muslim village with a population of 11 households and 2 bachelors. The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, and goats and/or beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a tax on people from the Nablus area, a total of 1,500 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 129
In 1838 el-Jurba was noted as a village in the District of esh-Sha'rawiyeh esh-Shurkiyeh, the eastern part.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 153Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 129
In 1870, Victor Guérin noted it as a small village situated on a neighboring hill from Misilyah.Guérin, 1874, p. 344
In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Jurba as: "a small village on the side of a slope, with olives to the south."Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 196
British Mandate era In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jarba had a population of 31 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29 increasing in the 1931 census to 65 Muslim, in a total of 17 houses.Mills, 1932, p. 68
In the 1944/5 statistics the population was 100, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16 with 3,530 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54 100 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,553 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98 while 2 dunams were built-up (urban) land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 148
Jordanian era In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Jarba came under Jordanian rule.
post-1967 Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Jarba has been under Israeli occupation.
Byzantine site at Nazlat Rahal Just southwest of Jarba is Nazlat Rahal,Kh. el Haj Rahhâl, the ruin of el Hâj (Pilgrim) Rahhâl; according to Palmer, 1881, p. 185 where Byzantine ceramics have been found.Dauphin, 1998, p. 756 SWP found at Kh. Haj Rah-hal: "traces of ruins."Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 156
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External links Welcome To Jarba Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11: IAA, Wikimedia commons