Raba, Jenin
Raba () is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate. History Pottery sherds from the Persian (15%), Hellenistic (20%), early and late Roman (10%+5%), Byzantine (20%), early Muslim (10%) and the Middle ages (10%) have been found here. Ottoman era Raba, like all of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. About 10% of the pottery sherds found in the village date back to this period. In the 1596 Ottoman tax registers, it was located in the nahiya of Jabal Sami in the liwa of Nablus. Raba was listed as an entirely Muslim village with a population of 23 families. The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, and goats and/or beehives, a press for olive oil or grape syrup, in addition to occasional revenues and a tax on people from the Nablus area, a total of 3,500 akçe. In 1838 Rabeh was noted as a village in the Haritheh district, north of Nablus. In 1870, Raba, situated south of Deir Abu Da'if, was one of the "not important" villages Victor Guérin noted from Faqqua. In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) noted Raba as