Natifah

Natifah ناطفة (إربد)
Town
Natifah Location in Jordan
Coordinates: 32°31′09″N 35°49′19″E
Grid position	227/213
Country	Jordan
Governorate	Irbid Governorate
Time zone	UTC + 2

Natifah is a village in Jordan approximately 2 km south-west of Irbid.^[1]

History

In 1596 it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers named as Natifa, situated in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani al-Asar, part of the Sanjak of Hawran. It had 17 households and 9 bachelors; all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products; including wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards/fruit trees, goats and bee-hives. The total tax was 5,500 akçe.^[2]

In 1838 Natifah's inhabitants were predominantly Sunni Muslims.^[3]

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 451 inhabitants in Natifa.^[4]

References

1. Satellite Views.net, Natifah
2. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 206
3. Smith, in Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 164
4. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 19

Bibliography

• Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics (1964). First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population (PDF).
• 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.
• Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.