Natifah is a village in Jordan approximately 2 km south-west of Irbid.[1]
Natifah
ناطفة (إربد) | |
|---|---|
Town | |
  Natifah Location in Jordan | |
| Coordinates: 32°31′09″N 35°49′19″E / 32.51917°N 35.82194°E | |
| Grid position | 227/213 |
| Country |  Jordan |
| Governorate | Irbid Governorate |
| Time zone | UTC + 2 |
History
editIn 1596 it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers named as Natifa, situated in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani al-Asar, part of the Sanjak of Hawran. It had 17 households and 9 bachelors; all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products; including wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards/fruit trees, goats and bee-hives. The total tax was 5,500 akçe.[2]
In 1838 Natifah's inhabitants were predominantly Sunni Muslims.[3]
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 451 inhabitants in Natifa.[4]
References
editBibliography
edit- Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics (1964). First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population (PDF).
- Hütteroth, W.-D.; Abdulfattah, K. (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
- Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.