Tayasir

Infobox Palestinian Authority muni
name=Tayasir


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arname=تياسير
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typefrom=1998
altOffSp=Tiaseer
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governorate=tb
latd=32|latm=20|lats=25.56|latNS=N
longd=35|longm=23|longs=48.42|longEW=E
population=2,400
popyear=2006
area=26,000
areakm=26.0
mayor=Akram Abd al-Aziz Debs

Tayasir ( _ar. تياسير) is a Palestinian town in the Tubas Governorate in the northern West Bank. The town is located 22 kilometers northeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Tayasir had a population of 2,400 inhabitants. [ [http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_pcbs/populati/pop02.aspx Projected Mid -Year Population for Tubas District by Locality 2004- 2006] Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.] It consists of 281 dunams. Tayasir was declared a municipality of 1998. [ [http://www.hwc-pal.org/tiaseer.htm Tiaseer] Health Work Committees.]

History

Tayasir's history is believed to date back to the Canaanite era of Palestine, deriving from the Canaanite word "Asheer" meaning pleasure or happiness. In the site lay several archaeological remains including an Ancient Roman palace, an olive press, several grottoes and the old mosque. [http://proxy.arij.org/tubas/static/localities/profiles/104_profile.pdf Tayasir Village Profile] Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem. February 2006.]

In 1500 AD, two Arab families from as-Salt in Jordan, Jabir and Taleb settled in the site and established the village, due to its strategic location and isolated arable land. In 1900, a landlord Hassan Hamad, received the most of Tayasir's land due to the village's residents' monetary debt to him. Thirty years later, most of the land was purchased by a man named al-Batriyarkia al-Latinyah. Israel attempted to buy the land from him in 1967, but were refused.

Demographics

According to a census taken by the British Mandate of Palestine authorities, Tayasir had a population of 187 in 1931. In Sami Hadawi's land and population survey in 1945, Tayasir's population was 260 and this figure nearly doubled in 1961, reaching 487. The Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, projected a population of 1,200 in 1987. [ [http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/Tayasir_1638/index.html Welcome to Tayasir: Town Statistics and Facts] Various sources via PalestineRemembered.] In the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics' (PCBS) first official census in 1997, Tayasir had a population of 1,753 inhabitants. According to the PCBS's latest projection, the village's population was 2,397 — an increase of 32.4% in nine years. [ [http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_pcbs/populati/pop02.aspx Projected Mid -Year Population for Tubas District by Locality 2004- 2006] Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.]

In the 1997 census, males constituted 50.6% of the population while females comprised 49.4%. Tayasir represents 5% of the Tubas Governorate's total population. Seven families make-up the majority of the village residents: Debik (17%), Abu Muhsen (15%), Wahdan (15%), Sbah (15%), Jabir (11%), Taleb (8%) and Abd al-Rasaq (7%). Other smaller families comprise 14% of the population.

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