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relied on early- and/or late-Ottoman data,” as Mustafa Dabbagh’s research indicates, the
administrative borders of the Hebron district shifted with some frequency, particularly in the
late-Ottoman period. Classifications of settlements shifted as well, not necessarily related to
changes on the ground. These two factors complicate and may confuse attempts to
understand patterns of growth and development, because the basis of measurement — the
district — fluctuated. Detailed analysis of the data is imperative.
Mustafa Dabbagh examined Ottoman imperial (deviet-i aliyye) yearbooks(salnames)
and found that the Hebron district consisted of 50 villages and farms (mezra‘s) in the
salname of 1888 (1306 H); 52 villages and farms in the 1899 yearbook (1317 H); 52 villages
alone in 1903 (1321 H); and 62 villages and farms in 1910 (1328 H).’"’ What were the causes
of these changes? By way of an indicative answer, we may compare two detailed lists of the
district from the same decade, one a provincial (vilayet) list of Hebron’s villages and the
number of hanes in them in 1871, and the other the emlak-registration register of 1876.
“8 Ehud Toledano, “The Sanjaq of Jerusalem in the Sixteenth Century — Patterns of Rural Settlement and
Demographic Trends”, in Amnon Cohen, ed., Jerusalem in the Early Ottoman Period (Jerusalem: Yad
Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1979): 69-92; Moshe Brawer, “Transformation in Arab Rural Settlement in Palestine”, in
Ruth Kark, ed., The Land that Became Israel: Studies in historical geography (New Haven and London:
Yale University Press, 1989), 167-180; David Grossman, Rural Demography and Early Jewish Settlement
in Palestine: Distribution and Population Density during the Late Ottoman and Early Mandate Periods,
trans. from Hebrew by Marcia Grossman (New Brunswick, USA and London: Transaction Publishers,
2011); Seth Frantzman, “The Arab settlement of Late Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine: New Village
Formation and Settlement Fixation, 1871-1948”, PhD dissertation, Hebrew University (June 2010).
™* Biladuna Filastin, volume 5, part 2: Fi Diyar al-Khalil (In the Hebron region) second edition, with
additions and corrections (Hebron: Rabitat al-Jami ‘tn (University Graduates’ Union), 1986), 12.
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