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In the [[Ottoman empire|Ottoman]] period, the village appeared under the name of ''El Qahweh'' in [[Pierre Jacotin]]´s map from 1799.<ref>Karmon, 1960, p. [http://www.jchp.ucla.edu/Bibliography/Karmon,_Y_1960_Jacotin_Map_(IEJ_10).pdf 160]</ref>
In 1875, the French explorer [[Victor Guérin]] visited the village, which he called ''El Kahoueh''. He found it to have 120 inhabitants, all Muslims.<ref>Guérin, 1880, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr00gugoog#page/n47/mode/1up 31]</ref> In 1881 the [[Palestine Exploration Fund]]'s ''Survey of Western Palestine'' described the village, then named ''El Kahweh'', as a "stone village, containing about 250 Moslems, [] situated on the plain, surrounded by figs, olives, mulberries, and pomegranates; there is a spring and flowing stream at this village."<ref>Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/146/mode/1up 146]</ref>
 
In 1881 the [[Palestine Exploration Fund]]'s ''Survey of Western Palestine'' described the village, then named ''El Kahweh'', as a "stone village, containing about 250 Moslems, [] situated on the plain, surrounded by figs, olives, mulberries, and pomegranates; there is a spring and flowing stream at this village."<ref>Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/146/mode/1up 146]</ref>
 
A population list from about 1887 showed that ''el Kahweh'' had 370 inhabitant; all [[Muslim]]s.<ref>Schumacher, 1888, p. [http://archive.org/stream/quarterlystateme19pale#page/n198/mode/1up 173]</ref>
===British Mandate era===
In the [[19311922 census of Palestine]], conducted by the [[British Mandate of Palestine|British Mandate authorities]], Al- Nahr wa Tal had 522a population of 422; 3 Bahai, the rest Muslim.<ref name=Barron36>Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Acre, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n38/mode/1up 36]</ref> In the [Muslim[1931 census of Palestine|1931 census]], Al-Nahr had 522 Muslim inhabitants, in a total of 120 houses.<ref name="Census1931">Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 102]</ref>
 
In villagers of Al-Nahr lived principally of agriculture and animal husbandry.<ref name=Khalidi28/> In [[Village Statistics, 1945| 1944/45]] it had a population of 610 Muslims,<ref name=1945p4/> with 5,261 [[dunams]] of land.<ref name=Hadawi41/> A total of 2,066 [[Dunam|dunums]] was used for [[citrus]] and [[banana]]s, 1,094 dunums were allotted to [[cereals]], 1,937 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, of which 30 dunums were planted in [[olive]] trees,<ref name=Khalidi28>Khalidi, 1992, pp. 27-28</ref><ref name=Hadawi81>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Acre/Page-081.jpg 81]</ref> while 28 dunams were built-up land.<ref name=Hadawi131>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Acre/Page-131.jpg 131]</ref>
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==Bibliography==
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*{{cite book | editor =Barron, J. B. | title = Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 |url=https://archive.org/details/PalestineCensus1922 |publisher = Government of Palestine | year = 1923}}
*{{cite book |title=Sacred landscape: the buried history of the Holy Land since 1948 |first=Mêrôn|last= Benveniśtî |authorlink=Meron Benvenisti |year=2000 |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7itq6zYtSJwC |isbn=978-0-520-23422-2}}
*{{cite book|last1=Conder|first1=Claude Reignier|authorlink1=Claude Reignier Conder|last2=Kitchener|first2=H. H.|authorlink2=Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp01conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology|location=London|publisher=[[Palestine Exploration Fund|Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund]]|volume=1}}
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*Morris, Benny, (second edition 2004 third printing 2006) The Birth Of The Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-00967-7
*{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=E. H.|authorlink=Edward Henry Palmer|year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp00conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer|publisher=[[Palestine Exploration Fund|Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund]]}}
*{{cite journal | last = Schumacher | first =G.| authorlink = Gottlieb Schumacher | title = Population list of the Liwa of Akka | journal = Quarterly statement - Palestine Exploration Fund | volume = 20 | pages = 169–191 | url =https://archive.org/details/quarterlystateme19pale | year = 1888}}
*{{cite book | title=The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=KmZkrgEACAAJ| publisher=Israel Exploration Society & Carta, Simon and Schuster | authors=Stern, E., Lewinson-Gilboa, A., Avriam, J. | year=1993 | location=Jerusalem | pages=839–841 | isbn=0-13-276312-5 | volume=3}}
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