Village Statistics 1945: A Classification of Land and Area Ownership in Palestine (ص 12)

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Village Statistics 1945: A Classification of Land and Area Ownership in Palestine (ص 12)

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Village Statistics 1945
Once again the Department of Land Settlement was called upon to pro-
vide, as a matter of urgency, a revision of the ‘Village Statistics’ of 1943. At
the same time, the Department of Statistics was instructed to supply figures
on population. Both Departments cooperated in the preparation of this infor-
mation which eventually emerged in the form of the ‘Village Statistics 1945’
with which we are now dealing. This was the last such publication issued by
the Palestine Government before the termination of the Mandate on 14
May 1948.
The difference between the 1943 and 1945 editions is that whereas the
former gave only particulars as between Jews and non-Jews, the latter was
more detailed and included information on estimated population by com-
munity as at the end of 1944 and land holdings broken up according to
Arabs, Jews, Public (government, municipalities and local councils) and
Others.
The village names appearing in the ‘Village Statistics’ are in accordance
with the Administrative Divisions (Amendment) Proclamation 1945 as pub-
lished in the Palestine Gazette No. 1415 dated 7 June 1945. This Proclama-
tion divided Palestine into six districts (Galilee, Haifa, Samaria, Jerusalem,
Lydda and Gaza) comprising sixteen sub-districts, each sub-district consisting
of a number of town and village units.
The following examples explain the system adopted where more than
one name appeared on the same line:
(a) Where a territorial unit included
two or more administrative units
which were not territorially Sur Bahir and Umm Tuba
separated from one another and
were of equal importance —
(b) A unit which included a Khirbet
(‘hamlet’) or a previously declared
village which was no longer
recognized as a separate
village entity —
Beit Kahil (includes
Khirbet Jamrura)
(c) Change of name — ‘Ein hash Shofat
(Previously Ji‘ara)
(d) An entity known by two names — Khirbet Samah (Eilon)
The limits of towns were as defined under the Urban Property Tax
Ordinance; and village built-up areas were those lands classified in category 4
under the Rural Property Tax Ordinance.

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Village Statistics 1945: A Classification of Land and Area Ownership in Palestine

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Hadawi, Sami

هداوي، سامي

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