Attil
| Attil | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | عتيل |
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| Coordinates: 32°22′09.78″N 35°04′18.49″E / 32.3693833°N 35.0718028°ECoordinates: 32°22′09.78″N 35°04′18.49″E / 32.3693833°N 35.0718028°E | |
| Palestine grid | 156/197 |
| Governorate | Tulkarm |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| Area | |
| • Jurisdiction | 7,337 dunams (7.3 km2 or 2.8 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 9,038 |
| Name meaning | Attil, "severe" |
Attil (Arabic: عتيل) is a Palestinian town in the Tulkarm Governorate in the eastern West Bank, 12 km (7.5 mi) northeast of Tulkarm. Attil is the connection point between the other villages and Tulkarm. It is bordered by Illar to the east; Baqa ash-Sharqiyya to the north; The Green Line to the west; and Deir al-Ghusun to the south. Mountains surrounding the town include the Nabhan, Aboora, Asad, and Shehadeh mountains. Attil has an elevation of 100 m (330 ft) above Sea level, and an area of 7.337km2.
Attil is an ancient village site on a hill at the edge of the plains. Fragmentary mosaic floors and column shafts from a church have been found, together with cisterns dug into the rock, as well as caves.
Attil, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596 it was a part of the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Jabal Sami which was under the administration of the liwa ("district") of Nablus. The village had a population of 59 households, all Muslim, and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, occasional revenues, beehives and/or goats, and an olive oil press, or press for grape syrup.
In the late Ottoman period, in 1852, the American scholar Edward Robinson described passing by the villages of Zeita and Jatt on the way to 'Attil. Of 'Attil itself, he writes that it was "a considerable village," located on a hill with plains to the north and south.
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