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'''Bayt Nattif''' ({{lang-ar|'''بيت نتّيف'''}}), ({{Lang-he-n|'''בית נתיף'''}}), was an Arab village in the ]. It was depopulated during the ] on October 21, 1948 under ]. It was located 21 km northwest of ].{{citation needed|date=January 2014}} | ||
| In 1945 it had a population of 2,150. Bayt Nattif contained several shrines, including a notable one dedicated to al-Shaykh Ibrahim.<ref name=Khalidi211>Khalidi, 1992, pp. 211-212.</ref> Roughly a dozen ] lay in the vicinity.<ref name=Khalidi211/>] | In 1945 it had a population of 2,150. Bayt Nattif contained several shrines, including a notable one dedicated to al-Shaykh Ibrahim.<ref name=Khalidi211>Khalidi, 1992, pp. 211-212.</ref> Roughly a dozen ] lay in the vicinity.<ref name=Khalidi211/>] | ||
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Template:Infobox former Arab villages in Palestine
Bayt Nattif (Template:Lang-ar), (Template:Lang-he-n), was an Arab village in the Hebron Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on October 21, 1948 under Operation Ha-Har. It was located 21 km northwest of Hebron.
In 1945 it had a population of 2,150. Bayt Nattif contained several shrines, including a notable one dedicated to al-Shaykh Ibrahim. Roughly a dozen khirbas lay in the vicinity.
The Bayt Nattif lamp is named for a type of ceramic oil lamp found during the archaeological excavation of two cisterns at Bayt Nattif in southern Judaea. Bayt Nattif was located 20 kilometers southwest of Jerusalem, midway between Beit Guvrin and Jerusalem. Based on the discovery of unused oil lamps and molds, it is believed that in ancient times the village manufactured late Roman or Byzantine pottery, possibly selling its wares in Jerusalem and Beit Guvrin.
History
Bayt Nattif is mentioned in the writings of Josephus under the slightly different rendering, Bayt Letepha (Bethletephon). According to Josephus, the city was sacked under Vespasian and Titus, during the first Jewish uprising against Rome. The city had been assigned the status of toparchy, one of eleven toparchies or prefectures in Judaea given certain administrative responsibilities: 1) The toparchy of Gophna; 2) The toparchy of Acrabatta; 3) The toparchy of Thamna; 4) The toparchy of Lydda; 5) The toparchy of Emmaus; 6) The toparchy of Pella; 7) The toparchy of Idumea, one of whose principal cities being Bethletephon; 8) The toparchy of En Gedi; 9) The toparchy of Herodium; 10) The toparchy of Jericho, and 11) The toparchy of Jamnia and Joppa. These all answered to Jerusalem.
During the 12th year of the reign of Nero, when the Roman army had suffered a great defeat under Cestius, with more than five-thousand foot soldiers killed, the people of the surrounding countryside feared reprisals from the Roman army and made haste to appoint generals and to fortify their cities. Generals were at that time appointed for Idumea, namely, over the entire region immediately south and south-west of Jerusalem, and which incorporated within it the towns of Bethletephon, Betar, Kefar Tobah, Dora and Marissa. This region was called Idumea on account of it being a region inhabited largely by the descendants of Esau (Edom) who made themselves proselytes to Judaism during the time of John Hyrcanus. Generals, likewise, were appointed for Jericho and Perea (in trans-Jordan), and another general for Thamma (whose authority extended over those able-bodied fighting men in Lydda, Joppa and Emmaus), while yet another general was appointed over the area about Gophna and Acrabatta, and yet another over the cities in the Galilee.
Based upon archaeological finds that were discovered in Bayt Nattif, the city was still an important site in the Late Roman period. The place was now inhabited by Roman citizens and veterans, who settled the region as part of the Romanisation process that took place in the rural areas of Judaea after the Bar Kokhba war.
Bayt Nattif was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on October 21, 1948 under Operation Ha-Har, by the Fourth Battalion of the Har'el Brigade. Most of its inhabitants escaped to Bethlehem and Hebron.
References
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, pp. 211-212.
- Judean Beit Nattif Oil Lamp
- New light on daily life at Beth Shean
- Jerusalem Ceramic Chronology: Circa 200-800 CE, Jodi Magness
- Josephus, De Bello Judaico (Wars of the Jews) iv.viii.1.
- Josephus, De Bello Judaico (Wars of the Jews), iii.iii.4
- Josephus, De Bello Judaico (Wars of the Jews), ii.xx.3-4
- Boaz Zissu & Eitan Klein, A Rock-Cut Burial Cave from the Roman Period at Beit Nattif, Judaean Foothills, Israel Exploration Journal 61 (2), 2011, pp. 196-216
- Carta's Official Guide to Israel, Jerusalem 1983, s.v. Bayt Nattif.
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 (PDF). Government of Palestine.
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, Herbert H. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (pp. 24, 52)
- Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). Vol. III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. (p. 918)
- Guérin, Victor (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 1: Judee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (pp. 374-77)
- Guérin, Victor (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 1: Judee, pt. 3. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (pp. 329-330)
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (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. (p. 114)
- Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas (PDF). Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00967-6.
- Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 286)
- Robinson, Edward; Smith, Eli (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 2. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. (pp. 341-344)
- Toledano, E. (1984). "The Sanjaq of Jerusalem in the Sixteenth Century: Aspects of Topography and Population". Archivum Ottomanicum. 9: 279–319.
- Zissu, Boaz & Eitan Klein, "A Rock-Cut Burial Cave from the Roman Period at Beit Nattif, Judaean Foothills," Israel Exploration Journal 61(2), 2011, pp. 196–216
External links
- Welcome To Bayt Nattif
- Bayt Nattif, Palestine Family.net
- SWP map 17, IAA
- SWP map 17, Wikimedia commons
