Editing Ramallah (section)

===Ottoman period===
The area of Ramallah was incorporated into the [[Ottoman Empire]] in 1517 with all of [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. Modern Ramallah was founded in the mid-1500s by the Haddadins (also: Haddad''ee''n), a clan of brothers descended from [[Ghassanid]] [[Christians]]. The Haddadins (ancestors of the present-day Jadallah family, among others), and their leader Rashid el-Haddadin, arrived from east of the [[Jordan River]] from the areas of [[Al Karak|Karak]] and [[Shoubak]].<ref name="laoc">{{Cite web|url=http://ramallahlaoc.org/history.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029233225/http://www.ramallahlaoc.org/history.aspx |url-status=dead |title=American Federation of Ramallah Palestine<!-- Bot generated title -->|archive-date=October 29, 2008}}</ref> The Haddadin migration is attributed to fighting and unrest among clans in that area.

Haddadin was attracted to the mountainous site of Ramallah because it was similar to the mountainous areas he came from. In addition, the heavily forested area could supply him with plenty of fuel for his forges.<ref name="laoc" /> In 1596, Ramallah was listed in the [[Defter|tax registers]] as being in the ''[[nahiya]]'' of Quds (Jerusalem), part of the ''[[Jerusalem Sanjak|Liwa of Quds]]''. It had a population of 71 Christian households and 9 [[Muslim]] households. It paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on wheat, barley, olives, vines or fruit trees, and goats or beehives; a total of 9,400 [[akçe]]. All of the revenue went to a [[waqf]].<ref>{{harvnb|Hütteroth|Abdulfattah|1977|p=121}}</ref>

In 1838, American biblical scholar [[Edward Robinson (scholar)|Edward Robinson]] visited the area, noting that the inhabitants were Christian "of the Greek rite". There were 200 taxable men, which gives an estimated total population of 800–900 people. The village "belonged" to the [[Haram al-Sharif]], Jerusalem, to which it paid an annual tax of 350 Mids of grain.<ref>{{harvnb|Robinson|Smith|1841|pp=133–134}}</ref> In 1883, the [[Palestine Exploration Fund|PEF]]'s ''[[PEF Survey of Palestine|Survey of Western Palestine]]'' described Ramallah as

<blockquote>A large Christian village, of well-built stone houses, standing on a high ridge, with a view on the west extending to the sea. It stands amongst gardens and olive-yards, and has three springs to the south and one on the west; on the north there are three more, within a mile from the village. On the east there is a well. There are rock-cut tombs to the north-east with well-cut entrances, but completely blocked with rubbish. In the village is a Greek church, and on the east a Latin convent and a Protestant schoolhouse, all modern buildings. The village lands are [[Wakuf]], or ecclesiastical property, belonging to the Haram of Jerusalem. About a quarter of the inhabitants are Roman Catholics, the rest Orthodox Greeks.<ref>{{harvnb|Conder|Kitchener|1883|p=13}}</ref></blockquote>