Beit Liqya
| Beit Liqya | |
|---|---|
| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | بيت لقيا |
| • Also spelled |
Beit Liqya (official) Bayt Liqya (unofficial) |
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  Beit Liqya | |
| Coordinates: 31°52′09″N 35°04′01″E / 31.86917°N 35.06694°ECoordinates: 31°52′09″N 35°04′01″E / 31.86917°N 35.06694°E | |
| Governorate | Ramallah & al-Bireh |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| • Head of Municipality | Khaled Badr |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 11,500 |
| Name meaning | "The house of Likia"[1] |
Beit Liqya (Arabic: بيت لقيا)is a Palestinian town located in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the northern West Bank, 21 kilometers Southwest of Ramallah. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of approximately 7,710 in 2007, of which 3,799 were males and 3,911 were females.[2]
History
The French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village in the 1863, and estimated that it had around five hundred inhabitants. He also noted a wali for a Sheikh Abou Ismail.[3] An official Ottoman village list from about 1870, showed that "Bet Lukja" had a total of 109 houses and a population of 347, though the population count included only men.[4] In 1883, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described Beit Likia as a "small village on a main road at the foot of the hills, supplied by cisterns. There are ancient foundations among the houses."[5]
In a census conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, Beit Leqia had a population of 739, all Muslim,[6] increasing by the time of 1931 census, when Beit Liqya had 209 occupied houses and a population of 858, still all Muslim.[7]
In 1945 the population was 1,040, all Arabs, while the total land area was 14,358 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[8] Of this, 1,918 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 6,469 for cereals,[9] while 39 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[10]
Notable deaths
Jamal 'Asi (15 years old) and U'dai 'Asi (14 years old) were killed by the Israeli Army in 2005 near the separation barrier.[11] UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan welcomed Israel's announcement that an involved IDF officer was suspended, and that a full investigation of the incident would take place.[12]
Later the same year, their 15 year old cousin Mahyoub al-Asi was killed by a civilian security guard, "whom he knew." He was tending the family vineyard. His brother was also killed by a mine explosion near the village several years ago.[11]
References
- ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 286
- ↑ 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.115.
- ↑ Guérin, 1868, p. 347
- ↑ Socin, 1879, p. 146
- ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1883, p. 16
- ↑ J. B. Barron, ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine. Table VII, Sub-district of Ramallah.
- ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 62.
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in S. Hadawi, Village Statistics, 1945. PLO Research Center, 1970, p. 64
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in S. Hadawi, Village Statistics, 1945. PLO Research Center, 1970, p. 111
- ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in S. Hadawi, Village Statistics, 1945. PLO Research Center, 1970, p. 161
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Security guard shoots Palestinian teen in family vineyard, Jul.10, 2005, Haaretz
- ↑ Secretary-General 'saddened' by killing of two teens near Ramallah
Bibliography
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- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, Herbert H. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Guérin, Victor (1868). Description Géographique, Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. Vol 1, pt 1: Judee.
- Hadawi, Sami (1970), Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center
- E. Mills, ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
- Palmer, E. H. (1881). 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. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- A. Socin (1879). "Alphabetisches Verzeichniss von Ortschaften des Paschalik Jerusalem". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 2: 135–163.
External links
- Beit Liqya Town (Fact Sheet), ARIJ
- Beit Liqya Town Profile, ARIJ
- Beit Liqya areal photo, ARIJ
- Welcome To Bayt Liqya
- A New Israeli Military Order to confiscate ten dunums of Beit Liqya lands southwest of Ramallah city 24, April, 2010, AIRJ
