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Julis, Gaza
Summary
Julis (جولس) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict, located northeast of Gaza on a slight elevation along the southern coastal plain. In 1945, there were 1,030 inhabitants in the village. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
Julis was built on an archaeological site whose ancient name is unknown.
Potsherds from the Mamluk era have been found in the village.
The village had a Maqam (shrine) which was constructed with ancient materials.
Julis was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with the rest of Palestine, and by 1596 it was part of the nahiya of Gaza, in the Liwa of Gaza. It consisted of 204 persons (37 households), all Muslims. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 33,3 % on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, fruit, beehives, vineyards and goats; a total of 10,400 akçe. 6,5/24 of the revenue went to a Waqf.
In 1838, Julis was noted as a village in the District of Gaza.
In 1863 Victor Guérin found the village to be located on a hillock and containing five hundred inhabitants. It had a oualy, dedicated to Scheik Mohammed, was internally decorated with two fragments. Guérin further noted that "Several marble columns are laid across the mouth of the well, with furniture arranged around it."
An Ottoman village list of about 1870 indicated 101 houses and a population of 307, though the population count included only men.
In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Julis as mostly built of adobe brick structures, and it had a well to the south, and a pool surrounded by gardens to the northeast.
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jules had a population of 481 Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 682, still all Muslims, in 165 houses.
The village was laid out in a square, sandwiched between the two highways and bounded at one end by the traffic circle where they intersected. Its adobe and cement houses were constructed close together. The village had a mosque, and a shrine dedicated to Shaykh Khayr.
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