page_title: Burqin, Palestine
section_title: Ottoman era
hierarchical_section_title: Burqin, Palestine / History / Ottoman era
caption_attribution_description: English: Portion of map of Pierre Jacotin of northern Palestine, prepared during French military expedition of 1799 and published in 1826. Full name: Carte topographique de l'Egypte et de plusieurs parties des pays limitrophes ... .
context_page_description: Burqin is a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank located 5 km west of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics census, its population was 5,685 in 2007. The majority of Burqin's residents are Muslims, and 20 Christian families live in the town. The Byzantine-era Burqin Church or St. George's Church is one of the oldest churches in the world.
context_section_description: In 1517,  the village was included in the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine, and in the 1596 tax-records it appeared as Bruqin, located in the Nahiya of Jabal Sami of the Liwa of Nablus. The population was 23 households and 4 bachelors, all Muslim. They paid a tax rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, which included wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, occasional revenues, goats and beehives; a total of 7980 akçe.
  In 1799, Pierre Jacotin placed the village, named Berkin, nearly straight west of Jenin on his map. In 1838 Edward Robinson placed Burqin as  being in the District of Jenin, also called "Haritheh esh-Shemaliyeh".
  In 1863, when Victor Guérin visited, he found the village to have about 1,000 inhabitants, all Muslim with the exception of 90 Greek Orthodox Christians. He further noted that "Some  30 excavated cisterns are evidence that this village sits upon an ancient settlement."
  In 1872 Claude Reignier Conder visited Burqin during his surveying work in Palestine. He was met by the local curé and shown the church. It had a stone screen on the east, shutting of three apses.
  In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Burkin as "A village of Greek Christians, with a small modern church for the Greek rite. It stands on the side of a white hill, with a good well below on the north, and olives near it."
caption: Burqin and vicinity in 1799[7]
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