'Ajjul
| Ajjul | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | عجّول |
| • Also spelled | 'Ajjul (official) Ajoul (unofficial) |
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| Coordinates: 32°01′22″N 35°10′49″E / 32.02278°N 35.18028°ECoordinates: 32°01′22″N 35°10′49″E / 32.02278°N 35.18028°E | |
| Palestine grid | 167/159 |
| Governorate | Ramallah & al-Bireh |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| • Head of Municipality | Moussa Moussa |
| Area | |
| • Jurisdiction | 6,640 dunams (6.6 km2 or 2.5 sq mi) |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 1,237 |
| Name meaning | "Calves" |
Ajjul (Arabic: عجّول) is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the northern West Bank, located about nineteen kilometers north of Ramallah. There are two archaeological sites or khirbets to the east of the village. One of the khirbets is dedicated to a former resident of Ajjul, Sheikh Abdul. Ajjul is governed by a village council of three members.
Ajjul is a village on an ancient site. Tombs carved into rock have been found, and architectural fragments have been reused in a mosque.
Potsherds from the Iron Age, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman/Byzantine, Crusader/Ayyubid, Mamluk and early Ottoman period have also been found.
In the 12th and 13th centuries, during the Crusader era, Ajjul was inhabited by Muslims, according to Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn. A mosque in the village has an inscription in the south wall, dating it to 1196. The inscription is in Ayyubid naskhi script.
Röhricht suggested that Ajjul was the Crusader place called Gul; however, Conder disagreed.
The village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Quds of the Liwa of Quds. It had a population of 79 households, all Muslim, and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards and fruit trees, olives, goats and/or beehives.
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