Ain Sinia
| Ein Siniya | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | عين سينيا |
| • Also spelled | 'Ayn Sinya (official) Ayn Siniya (unofficial) |
Ein Sinica from the south
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| Coordinates: 31°58′21″N 35°13′47″E / 31.97250°N 35.22972°ECoordinates: 31°58′21″N 35°13′47″E / 31.97250°N 35.22972°E | |
| Palestine grid | 171/153 |
| Governorate | Ramallah & al-Bireh |
| Government | |
| • Type | Local Development Committee |
| Area (1945) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 2,404 dunams (2.4 km2 or 0.9 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 711 |
| Name meaning | "The spring of Sinya" |
Ein Siniya (Arabic: عين سينيا, ‘Ayn Sîniyâ) is a small Palestinian village of over 700 people in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) north of Ramallah, and approximately 1km northeast from Jifna. It lies in a valley surrounded with olive and fig-terraces.
Numerous rock-cut tombs have been found around the village.
Clermont-Ganneau identified Ein Siniya with Biblical Jeshanah and Isana of Josephus, but modern authors place that at Kh. el-Burn. Ein Siniya has usually been identified as the Crusader village Aineseins, which was one of 21 villages given by King Godfrey as a fief to the canons of the Holy Sepulchre. However, C. N. Johns, writing in 1939, thought that Aineseins was located by Tel Beit Shemesh.
Claude Reignier Conder and Herbert Kitchener wrote in 1882 that a small Crusader fort appeared to have been situated there, however, this has not been verified by later sources.
During Palestine's rule by the Ottoman Empire (16th-19th centuries), Ein Siniya was located in the sheikhdom of Bani Zeid, in the Jerusalem Sanjak. In 1556, it was the smallest village in the sheikhdom, having under ten households.Potsherds from the early Ottoman period have been found. In the Ottoman census of 1596, Ein Siniya was a part of the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Jerusalem, which was under the administration of the Jerusalem Sanjak. The village had a population of 12 households, all Muslim, and paid taxes on wheat, barley, olives, vineyards, fruit trees, occasional revenues, beehives and/or goats.
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