The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 22)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 22)

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io-Economic D lopm in P ine During th n
alf of the 19th Century:
The total Jand area of Palestine is 26,300,000 dunums or about 6,500,000
acres,? of which nearly nine million dunums were cultivable. The
cultivable lands were confined to the coastal and inland plains, Before
1948, most of the Jewish settlements were to be found on the latter and
along the coastal plains from Haifa to Jaffa. Of the uncultivable area,
nearly eleven million dunums were desert lands to the South of
Beersheba and the remaining six million dunums consist primary of hills
and forest areas.
Palestine was predominantly an agricultural country. Up to the 1860's
practically all land in Palestine was held commonly under the musha’
system; the rest was under individual ownership in the hills and close
proximity of towns.’ Under the musha’ system the land which was held in
common by the village was divided among the clans of the village who in
turn assigned certain proportions of lands to individual families for
tillage. This proportion of land was usually subject to redistribution at
fixed intérvals of time.* The two forms of land tenure, individual and
musha’, were not equally widespread in Palestine. In the plains the
musha’ had almost always been the rule, while in the hilly regions
individual ownership was predominant.”
3.0. Gass, R. Nathan and D. Creamer, Palestine; Problem and
Promise, Washington, 1949, p.184.
4 Said Hamadeh, Economic Organisation of Palestine, Beirut,
1938, p.206.
5 Avraham Granott, The Land System in Palestine, London, 1952,
p.
6 George E. Post, “Essays on the Sects of Nationalists of
Syria", Palestine Exploration Fund, 1891, p.105
7 Sarah Graham-Brown, “The Political Economy of Jabal Nablus
1920-1948" in Roger Owen (ed.) Studies in the Economic and
Social History of Palestine, London, 1982, p.108
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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources

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1990-10

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