Burham, Ramallah

Location

Burham is located 9.8 km north of Ramallah. It is bordered by 'Atara and Bir Zeit to the east, Umm Safa and Jibiya to the north, Kobar to the west, and Bir Zeit and Kobar to the south.

History

Sherds from the Roman, Byzantine and Mamluk eras have been found here.

Ottoman era

Sherds from the early Ottoman era have also been found.

In 1838 it was noted as a Muslim village in the Bani Zeid administrative region.

In 1863 Victor Guérin noted that it was divided into three parts. He further noted "an ancient rock-cut tomb consisting of a rough sepulchral chamber containing only one koka, and preceded by a vestibule. Here and there are old foundations built of badly quarried stones. There are also remains, probably of an ancient church."

An official Ottoman village list of about 1870 showed that it had a total of 14 houses and a population of 69, though the population count included men, only.

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Khurbet Burheim as: "A few houses on high ground." They further noted that it was "A ruined village, with caves. It is still inhabited by a few peasants."

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Burham had a population of 74 Muslims, increasing at the time of the 1931 census to 122, still all Muslim, in 26 houses.

In the 1945 statistics, the population was 150 Muslims, while the total land area was 1,589 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 191 were for plantations and irrigable land, 787 for cereals, while 6 dunams were classified as built-up areas.

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Burham came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 167 inhabitants.

Post-1967

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Burham has been under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 98% of village land is defined as Area B land, while the remaining 2% is defined as Area C.

According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Burham had a population of 565 in mid-year 2006. In the 2007 census by the PCBS, there were 616 people living in the town. By 2017, there were 583 residents.

References

Bibliography

References

1. (February 2018). "Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017". [[State of Palestine]].
2. Palmer, 1881, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/233/mode/1up 233]
3. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/Burham_926/index.html#Statistics Welcome to Burham]
4. [[Taha, Hamdan]], 2002: [https://www.academia.edu/12192359/The_Sanctuary_of_Sheikh_el-Qatrawani The Sanctuary of Sheikh al-Qatrawani], Studium Biblicum Franciscanum - Jerusalem
5. [http://vprofile.arij.org/ramallah/pdfs/vprofile/Burham_vp_en.pdf Burham village profile], ARIJ, p. 4
6. Finkelstein and Lederman, 1997, p. 408
7. Under the name of ''Dayr Burhan'' it was listed in the 1538-1539 [[daftar. census]].Toledano, 1984, pp. 280, 292, gives the location as 31°59′25″N 35°10′05″E
8. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/125/mode/1up 125]
9. Guérin, 1869, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr06gugoog#page/n52/mode/1up 39], as given in Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/330/mode/1up 330]-331
10. Socin, 1879, p. [https://archive.org/stream/zeitschriftdesde01deut#page/145/mode/1up 145]. Also noted it to be in the ''Bani Zeid'' region
11. Hartmann, 1883, p. [https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_BZobAQAAIAAJ#page/n914/mode/1up 106] also noted 14 houses
12. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/290/mode/1up 290]
13. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/330/mode/1up 330]
14. Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Ramallah, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n18/mode/1up 16]
15. Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 48]
16. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p26.jpg 26]
17. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Ramallah/Page-064.jpg 64]
18. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Ramallah/Page-111.jpg 111]
19. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Ramallah/Page-161.jpg 161]
20. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensusPages/JordanCensus1961-p24.pdf 24]
21. [http://vprofile.arij.org/ramallah/pdfs/vprofile/Burham_vp_en.pdf Burham village profile], ARIJ, p. 15
22. [http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_pcbs/populati/pop07.aspx Projected Mid -Year Population for Ramallah & Al Bireh Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006] [[Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics]].
23. [http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1487.pdf 2007 PCBS Census] {{webarchive. link. (December 10, 2010 [[Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics]]. p.112.)