From the Pages of the Defter (ص 190)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 190)

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Mustafa Dabbagh, in his classic, encyclopedic work Biladuna Filastin, recalls Jamrura only in
reference to other locations, as a named area bordering the villages of Bayt Ula, Tarqumiyya,
Idna, and Khirbet Umm Burj. Indeed, Jamrura is northwest of both Bayt Kahil and Taffuh,
separated from it by lands of Tarqumiya and Idhna. Crop lands (mezr‘as and khirbes) attached
to villages figure regularly in Dabbagh’s village entries, but Jamrura is oddly absent from the
entries of both Taffuh or Bayt Kahil.?7°
In the Esas-1 Emlak register of 1876, Jamrura figures as one of seven existent mezra‘s in the
district. At 2,150 dunams, it was one of the smaller mezra‘s, as can be seen in Table 4.2, below.
Nearby it were two more mezra’s. The first was Umm Burj, 2,400 dunams of field-crop land to
the north of Jamrura. Umm Burj was registered in shares of 400 dunams, each claimed by men
from the village of Nuba to its southeast. The second mezra‘, Sanabira, which may have
abutted the western border of Jamrura, comprised 3,038 dunams of field-crop land. According
to a notation in the Emlak register, its lands had recently reverted to miri (miri malt oldugu).
7° Unusually, the references to Jamrura are also non-standardized in Biladuna. We find Jamrurd ( ‘3942 )
once and Jamrira ( ® 4.42 ) once, and two more references to it as Khirbet Jamrara (')§ A> 44d ). See
the entries for the six villages mentioned above, in Mustafa Dabbagh, Biladuna Filastin, volume 5, part 2: FI
Diyar al-Khalil, second edition, with additions and corrections (Hebron: Rabitat al-Jami ‘tn (University
Graduates’ Union), 1986): 175-176, 204, 242-243, 245-246, 251-252, 253-255.
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