19 Facts About Tulkarm

Tulkarm, Tulkarem or Tull Keram is a Palestinian city in the West Bank, located in the Tulkarm Governorate of the State of Palestine.

Tulkarm is under the administration of the Palestinian Authority.

Under this arrangement, Tulkarm's inhabitants paid a third of their harvest as a tax towards the waqf, called qasm.

In 1596 Tulkarm appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the nahiya of Qaqun, which was a part of the sanjak of Nablus.

The Zaydan had particular authority over Tulkarm, being appointed as the mutassalim on behalf of the central authorities.

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Consequently, political power in Tulkarm passed to the Badran clan, while the Fuqaha family took control of administering the waqf lands, firmly placing them as the village's religious leaders.

Tulkarm appears on sheet 45 of Jacotin's map drawn-up during Napoleon's invasion in 1799, named Toun Karin.

Tulkarm was made the administrative center of the Bani Sa'b subdistrict in 1886, later becoming a municipality in 1892.

Tulkarm was appointed a governor, bringing the residents who numbered only a few thousand and who were mostly fellahin, closer to the central government.

Tulkarm's center shifted from the Old Mosque to an empty space in the northwest as the town expanded northward with the construction government buildings, a post office, a school and a hospital in that area.

At the time Tulkarm was divided into four main sections, with the bulk of commercial activity concentrated along the north–south and east–west roads.

In 1950, the Tulkarm Camp was established by UNRWA in the city, comprising an area of 0.

Israeli military administration over Tulkarm ended in 2005, when control of the city was handed back over to the PNA.

Tulkarm is at the crossroads of three historically important arteries: A road which runs north from the Latrun area along the edge of the coastal plain to Mount Carmel, Mount Tabor, Mount Gilboa, Nazareth and the Galilee and the Golan Heights, a road which winds northward along the outer tier of hills from the Ajalon valley to the Jezreel Valley, and a road that rises from the Mediterranean Sea at modern-day Netanya east to Nablus.

At the time of the 1931 census, Tulkarm had 804 occupied houses and a population of 4,540 Muslims, 1,555 Christians, 300 Jews, 100 Samaritans and 75 Druze.

Climate of Tulkarm is Mediterranean and subtropical as the area surrounding it, with rainfall limited to the winter.

Tulkarm is distinguished by the moderating effect the sea breeze has on its climate because of its location in the mountains.

Tulkarm receives in excess of 550 millimeters of rain yearly, which is dispersed and intermittent, characteristic of the Mediterranean Basin.

Traditional costumes of women from Tulkarm were plain, dark-colored gowns with or without embroidery, as most rural women were from the north of Palestine.