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Tabsur
Tabsur (Arabic: تبصر), also Khirbat 'Azzun (Arabic: خربة عزون), was a Palestinian village located 19 kilometres southwest of Tulkarm. In 1931, the village had 218 houses and an elementary school for boys. Its Palestinian population was expelled during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
The site of Tabsur contained archaeological remains, including the foundations of a building, a well, fragments of mosaic pavement, and tombs.
.In the 1860s, the Ottoman authorities granted 'Azzun an agricultural plot of land in the former confines of the Forest of Arsur (Ar. Al-Ghaba) in the coastal plain, west of the village. Residents of 'Azzun then repopulated the archaeological site of Tabsur. Describing this settlement according to local tradition, Ayalon and Marom noted,
On a summer day sometime in the late 1860s, a group of shabab (youth) from the Jabal Nablus (Samaria) highland left their village of ʿAzzun and descended to the sparsely populated and wooded coastal plain. They arrived at the long-abandoned site of Tubsur [...] Pitching their tents among the ancient ruins, they set about demarcating ʿAzzun’s new land claim in the Forest of Arsuf (al-ghaba) [...]. They debarked the old oak trees as boundary marks, one village elder narrated, ‘and after that they began improving the land by chopping down the trees and thorns’.
Like colonists settling on a land for the first time, they built an eponymous village, Khirbat ʿAzzun, and began making a living from growing grains and watermelons intended for faraway markets. ‘Its borders extended north as far as the lands of Miska, al-Tira and the Swamp (al-Bassa)’, the elder reminisced; ‘as far south as the tribe of Abu Kishk and the Yarkon (ʿAuja river), westward up to the ghaba of the people of Kafr ʿAbbush (Ghabat al-ʿAbabsha) and Sidna ʿAli, and eastward up to the village of Kafr Saba’.
In the 1870s, Tabsur was described as a moderate-sized hamlet with a well to the north. It was later classified as a hamlet by the Palestine Index Gazetteer.
According to Ayalon and Marom, "The frontline trenches of the Great War carved open wounds in the plain’s soil, destroying and temporarily depopulating Khirbat ʿAzzun, Kfar Sava and some other nearby villages."
In the 1922 census of Palestine there were 709 villagers; 700 Muslims and 9 Christians, (where the Christians were all Orthodox,) increasing in 1931 census to 994; 980 Muslims and 14 Christians, in 218 houses.
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Tabsur
Tabsur (Arabic: تبصر), also Khirbat 'Azzun (Arabic: خربة عزون), was a Palestinian village located 19 kilometres southwest of Tulkarm. In 1931, the village had 218 houses and an elementary school for boys. Its Palestinian population was expelled during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
The site of Tabsur contained archaeological remains, including the foundations of a building, a well, fragments of mosaic pavement, and tombs.
.In the 1860s, the Ottoman authorities granted 'Azzun an agricultural plot of land in the former confines of the Forest of Arsur (Ar. Al-Ghaba) in the coastal plain, west of the village. Residents of 'Azzun then repopulated the archaeological site of Tabsur. Describing this settlement according to local tradition, Ayalon and Marom noted,
On a summer day sometime in the late 1860s, a group of shabab (youth) from the Jabal Nablus (Samaria) highland left their village of ʿAzzun and descended to the sparsely populated and wooded coastal plain. They arrived at the long-abandoned site of Tubsur [...] Pitching their tents among the ancient ruins, they set about demarcating ʿAzzun’s new land claim in the Forest of Arsuf (al-ghaba) [...]. They debarked the old oak trees as boundary marks, one village elder narrated, ‘and after that they began improving the land by chopping down the trees and thorns’.
Like colonists settling on a land for the first time, they built an eponymous village, Khirbat ʿAzzun, and began making a living from growing grains and watermelons intended for faraway markets. ‘Its borders extended north as far as the lands of Miska, al-Tira and the Swamp (al-Bassa)’, the elder reminisced; ‘as far south as the tribe of Abu Kishk and the Yarkon (ʿAuja river), westward up to the ghaba of the people of Kafr ʿAbbush (Ghabat al-ʿAbabsha) and Sidna ʿAli, and eastward up to the village of Kafr Saba’.
In the 1870s, Tabsur was described as a moderate-sized hamlet with a well to the north. It was later classified as a hamlet by the Palestine Index Gazetteer.
According to Ayalon and Marom, "The frontline trenches of the Great War carved open wounds in the plain’s soil, destroying and temporarily depopulating Khirbat ʿAzzun, Kfar Sava and some other nearby villages."
In the 1922 census of Palestine there were 709 villagers; 700 Muslims and 9 Christians, (where the Christians were all Orthodox,) increasing in 1931 census to 994; 980 Muslims and 14 Christians, in 218 houses.