Umm al-Tut
village council in Jenin Governorate
Umm al-Tut (Arabic: ام التوت, romanized: ām al-tūt, literally "Mulberries Place") is a Palestinian village 6 km southeast of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 1003 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 1,194 by 2017.
History
In 1517 Umm al-Tut was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine. During the 16th and 17th centuries, it belonged to the Turabay Emirate (1517-1683), which encompassed also the Jezreel Valley, Haifa, Jenin, Beit She'an Valley, northern Jabal Nablus, Bilad al-Ruha/Ramot Menashe, and the northern part of the Sharon plain. Its original residents reportedly came from the areas of Nablus and Ramallah.
In 1870, Umm al-Tut, called Oumm et-Toutah, situated south of Deir Abu Da'if, was one of the villages Victor Guérin noted from Faqqua.
In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described the village as resembling El Mughair, and that it stood "amongst dense thickets on the north and west, and has open plough-land on the south."
British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Umm al-Tut had a population 94 Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 129 Muslims, in a total of 24 houses.
In 1945 statistics the population was 170 Muslims, with 4,876 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 132 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,705 dunams were for cereals, while a total of 6 dunams were built-up, urban land.
Jordanian era
Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and the subsequent 1949 Armistice Agreements, Umm al-Tut came under Jordanian rule.
The public source identifies “Umm al-Tut” as village council in Jenin Governorate. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around al-Tut, village and council.
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