Jibiya is located 11.2 kilometers (7.0 mi) north of Ramallah. It is bordered by Burham to the east, Umm Safa the east, north and west, and Kobar to the west and south.[5]
It has been suggested that this was Geba in the Onomasticon,[7][8] and the Crusader place called Gebea,[9] but both these identifications have now been discarded.[6]
Pottery sherds from the Mamluk era have also been found here.[6]
Pottery sherds from the early Ottoman era have been found here. The village's historical core, comprising eight buildings arranged around a series of stone-paved courtyards, is not inhabited anymore. Three pillars were found here.[6]
Jibiya was founded after the 16th century.[10] In the spring of 1697, Henry Maundrell noted two "Arab villages," first "Geeb" and then "Selwid," both on the west side of the road on the way south from Nablus to Jerusalem.[4]Edward Robinson identified these two villages as Jibiya and Silwad.[11]
In 1838 Jibia was noted as a Muslim village in the Beni Zaid district, north of Jerusalem.[11][12]
In 1863 Victor Guérin noted it as a small village, with a shrine, dedicated to a SheikhBaiezed.[13]
An official Ottoman village list from about 1870, listed Dschibija as having 12 houses and a population of 39, though the population count included men, only.[14][15]
In1945 statistics, the population was 90, all Muslims,[19] while the total land area was 1,666 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[20] Of this, 100 were plantations and irrigable land, 815 for cereals,[21] while 4 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[22]
After the 1995 accords, 51.4% of village land is defined as Area B land, while the remaining 48.6% is defined as Area C. Israel has confiscated land from Jibiya in order to construct Israeli bypass roads 4 and 566, to Israeli settlements.[23]
^Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 356
^Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 356
