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Ti'inik, also transliterated Ti’innik (), or Ta'anakh/ Taanach (), is a Palestinian village, located 13 km northwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank.
The village is located on the slopes of an archaeological tell identified with the biblical city of Ta'anach, which has seen intermittent habitation spanning 5000 years.
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,095 inhabitants in mid-year 2006. Projected Mid-Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Excavations at the tell were carried out by Albert Glock mostly during the 1970s and 1980s. Twelve Akkadian cuneiform tablets were found here. Approximately one third of the names on these tablets are of Hurrian origin, indicating a significant northern ethnic presence.Gustavs, A. (1927) "Die Personennamen in den Tontafeln von Tell Ta-annek" (in German). ZDPV 50, 1-18.Glock, A.E. (1971) "A New Ta-annek Tablet". BASOR 204, 17-30. Pottery remains from the Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, and the Middle Ages have been found here.Zertal (2016), pp. 177-179 The main remains visible today are of an 11th-century Abbasid palace.Winter. Dave. Israel handbook: with the Palestinian Authority areas, p. 644
In Roman, Byzantine and early Islamic times, the inhabited site was located on the lower slopes rather than the tell itself.
In the daftar of 1596, the village appeared as "Ta'inniq", located in the nahiya of Sha'ara in the liwa of Lajjun. It had a population of 13 households, all Muslim. They paid taxes on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 7,000 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 159
In 1838, Ta'annuk was noted as a Muslim village in the Jenin district;Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd Appendix, pp. 126, 131 It only contained a few families, but was said to have been much larger, and to contain ruins.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp. 156, 159
In 1870 Victor Guérin found that the village consisted of ten houses.Guérin, 1875, p. 226 He further described it as: 'Once the southern sides and the whole upper plateau of the oblong hill on which the village stands were covered with buildings, as is proved by the innumerable fragments of pottery scattered on the soil, and the materials of every kind which are met with at every step: the larger stones have been carried away elsewhere. Below the village is a little mosque, which passes for an ancient Christian church. It lies, in fact, east and west, and all the stones with which it is built belong to early constructions; some of them are decorated with sculptures. Farther on in the plain are several cut in the rock, and a Water well, called Bir Tannuk.Guérin, 1875, pp. 226 -228; as translated by Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 68
In 1870/1871 (1288 Anno Hegirae), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya of Shafa al-Gharby.
In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as "A small village, which stands on the south-east side of the great Tell or mound of the same name at the edge of the plain. It has olives on the south, and wells on the north, and is surrounded with cactus hedges. There is a white dome in the village. The rock on the sides of the Tell is quarried in places, the wells are ancient, and rock-cut tombs occur on the north near the foot of the mound."Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 46
By 1917, the village was home to eight family groups residing in 17 single-room houses.
In the 1945 statistics the population was estimated at 100 Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 17 with 32,263 of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 55 452 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 31,301 dunams for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 99 while a total of 4 dunams were built-up, urban land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 149
In addition to agriculture, residents practiced animal husbandry which formed was an important source of income for the town. In 1943, they owned 39 heads of cattle, 4 , 14 , a mule, 20 , 168 , and 15 Domestic pigeon.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 246 inhabitants.Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25
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