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(57);7°° and the population during the Mandate era (1922: 692 people; 1931: 925 people; and
1945: 1,240 people)*’—seems to indicate that a “hane” in Shuyukh was, indeed, a one-room
residence and not an entire hawsh, and that the population in 1876 was likely not more than a
few hundred men, women, and children.
Two women were among householders in Shuyukh in 1876. One of them, Fatima bint
Sabah, also owned a few agricultural properties. In the em/ak register she claimed 14.5 dunams
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split between olive trees, field-crop land, and vineyard land.“” Ten residence-owners in the
village did not register any agricultural properties. There were also twenty-six agricultural-
property owners who did not register a residence. Six of the seven villagers who registered
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more than 75 dunams also registered residences.”’” One of them, ‘Isa b. ‘Awda, registered two
*”? Villagers individually registered a total of 134 plots consisting of vineyards, field-crop
hanes.
land, olive trees, fig trees, and kitchen gardens. These totaled 732.5 dunams, an average of just
over seventeen dunams per residence.
The largest registered property owner in the village was ‘Abd al-Qadir b. Shihada. He
claimed a seventy-dunam plot of field-crop land in Marah Hamad (lit., pasture of Hamad), three
788 See Appendix II.
269 Al-Dabbagh, p. 169.
270 Fcas-1 Emlak entries # 13701, 13749, 13762, 13813.
271 They were ‘Isa b. ‘Awda, Shaykh Ghanaim b. Yusuf, Shaykh Mansur b. Ahmad, ‘Abd al-Qadir b. Hajj Khalil,
Khalil b. Shihada ‘Awd, Taha b. Hamdan ‘Isa, and ‘Abd al-Qadir b. Shahadeh.
272 Esas-1 Emlak entries # 13682, 13711. The former, hane #1 on the village list, was one of the two residences
in town assessed at 1,125 kurus, the highest-valued residences. The worth of the latter, hane #31 on the
village list, was assessed at 250 kurus. ‘Isa was the only villager to register two residences.
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