This place is marked under the name
Sububa on the map of
Marino Sanuto (1322 A.D.), and identified by him with
Megiddo.
Ottoman era In 1838 it was noted as a
Muslim village called
Ezbuba in the
Jenin administrative region. In 1870,
Victor Guérin noted it in the distance, as a small village on an oblong mound. In 1870/1871 (1288
AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the
nahiya of Shafa al-Gharby. In 1882, the
PEF's
Survey of Western Palestine described
Ezbuba: "A village of
mud, of moderate size, with
wells and
cisterns. It stands near the foot of the hills, and is probably an ancient site, having a
sarcophagus, and a wine-press to the south." decreasing in the
1931 census to 344 Muslim, in a total of 83 houses. In the
1945 statistics, the population was 560 Muslims, with 13,843
dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 209 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 13,054 dunams were for cereals, while a total of 16 dunams were built-up, urban land.
Jordanian era Following the
1948 Arab–Israeli War, and the subsequent
1949 Armistice Agreements, Zububa came under
Jordanian rule. The
Jordanian census of 1961 found 683 inhabitants.
Israeli era Since the 1967
Six-Day War, Zububa has been under Israeli rule. In early 1980s, the town came under the governance of the Israeli Civil Administration system. With the Oslo Accords, the town came under the direct control of the
Palestinian National Authority in 1994.
Palestinian era Confrontations broke out between Palestinian residents and Israeli forces during an IDF raid in Zububa. == Demography ==