From the Pages of the Defter (ص 188)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 188)

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deduced from this evidence that significant permanent settlement by the ancestors of today’s
main families in these villages occurred at some point between the sixteenth and nineteenth
centuries. Needless to say, the sites of these villages have a much longer history of
settlement.’ Regarding Jamrira, the early-sixteenth century tapu register lists two villages in
the Hebron district which may have referred to Jamrura, but neither possibility can be
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concluded with any certainty.””’ Ehud Toledano, who has also examined these early-Ottoman
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registers, reads these two locales as “Jamrura or: Jamrun” and Jamrin villages.
between the ha (h) and the jiim (j) is only adot:@ €@, anda middle-jiim can be hard to decipher from a
middle-miim (m) in some handwritten scripts. However, the khirbe cannot be located in the register itself.
318 Archaeological findings attest to the fact that both settlements are ancient. (Dabbagh, p. 204)
*™ There is similarity in the names. The register was organized by timar-holders and their properties, which
were not always confined to contiguous areas, so proximity of locales on the register pages cannot be taken
as a certain indicator of topographical closeness. For example, Taffuh and Bayt Kahil are found next to each
other in the register, but geographically close Tarqumiyya is listed elsewhere.
Jamrira is written $943, however the siyakat script employed omits the dots which are so
crucial to distinguishing letters in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish. One may consider village (entry #347) Jamrin
or Jimrin ( Gs42 ), for which the authors also suggest the possibility of reading the entry as Jamira (i.e.,
d 243). They identify this as being a mezra “close to Halhul [village]”, which conceivably could be our
Jamrura: It is four kilometers west of Halhul. Bakhit and Sawariyyah, pp. 225, 228. Addtionally, the authors
suggest the following possible readings for the name of Hebron-area village (entry #358) in Tapu Defter
131: Sg ,Aigypem , 49942 Jamrira does not appear to be a possible reading of the record (a facsimile
of the original is included with the authors’ transliteration and annotations), however the authors
frequently note locations in the register which, when compared with their known names today, appear to
us as variations or perhaps copying errors: for example, Bayt Kahil and Bayt Kamil; Dir Safit and Dir Samit;
Jibran and Bayt Jibrin (whose name in nineteenth-century Hebron court records often appears as Bayt
Jibril), and Batta (found often in nineteenth-century, central-government Turkish documents) instead of
Yatta. Thus, it is worthwhile to mention (in a footnote) these possibilities regarding Jamrura, even though
definitive conclusions cannot be reached.
3° Ehud Toledano, “Sancak Yerushalaim ba-meah Ha-tet”’zany — Hityashvut Kfarit ve Magamot Demografiot
(The Jerusalem Sancak in the Sixteenth Century—Village Settlement and Demographic Trends) in Amnon
Cohen, ed., Prakim ba-Toldot Yerushlaim ba-Rishit HaTqufa HaOthmanit (Chapters in the History of
Jerusalem in the Early Ottoman Period), 75 Hebrew. Toledano mapped these locations, but | have not yet
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