From the Pages of the Defter (ص 187)

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comprised the Hebron district at that time, and the authors excluded mezra’s (farmlands that
were not permanently settled) from their published analysis.
One does find, however, counted among the late-sixteenth century settlements, the
villages of Tarqumiya and Idhna, which border Jamrura to the south. They were home to
seventeen and sixty-eight hanes (households), respectively.”’’ By the end of the nineteenth
century, Tarqumiya and Idhna would be much closer in terms of size. In Tarqumiya, we find in
1876 eighty-three registered residences, while Idhna registered eighty-seven residences. Thirty
years subsequently, when the population was counted in 1905, Tarqumiyya would have 182
households of varying sizes, while in Idhna 83 households were registered.* (See Table 4.1,
below.)
Al-Bakhit and al-Sawariyyah (2007) did include mezroa’s in their study of an early-
sixteenth century tapu register for the Jerusalem /iwa; their findings inform us further about
this area. In the 1520s, Bayt Kahil and Taffuh themselves were recorded as being mezra’s,
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although Taffuh appears to have had some recognized permanent settlement.”~“ It may be
310 Ibid., 123-124.
3" On the distinction between residences and households, see Table 4.1, below.
32 Adnan al-Bakhit and Noufan Raja al-Sawariyyah, Liwa’ al-Quds al-Sharif min Daftar Tahrir TD 131, 932-
938AH / 1525-1531/32 (London: al-Furgan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2007): 76, 77, 151, 223, 224. The
Taffuh mezra’ was one of five properties in the Hebron region owned by the Darant (al-Dart) children. The
authors note that in tapu defter #427 (1525/6), which they also studied in-depth, Taffuh is recorded as a
village. It may also be noted that on the maps accompanying Bakhit and Sawariyyah’s study, in the area of
Jamrura there is identified a khirbe named Hajrura which possibly could be a misreading of Jamrura, since
Ottoman accounting registers were recorded in undotted, shorthand siyakat script, and the difference
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