Asira ash-Shamaliya
| Asira ash-Shamaliya | |
|---|---|
| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | عصيرة الشماليّة |
| • Also spelled |
Asira al-Shamaliyeh (official) 'Asira ash-Shamaliyah (unofficial) |
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  Asira ash-Shamaliya Location of Asira ash-Shamaliya within Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°15′02.44″N 35°16′01.21″E / 32.2506778°N 35.2670028°ECoordinates: 32°15′02.44″N 35°16′01.21″E / 32.2506778°N 35.2670028°E | |
| Governorate | Nablus |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality (from 1997) |
| • Head of Municipality | Mohammad Mahmoud Jawabra |
| Area | |
| • Jurisdiction | 29,442 dunams (29.4 km2 or 11.4 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 7,556 |
| Name meaning | "firewood of the north" |
| Website | www.asira.org.ps |
Asira ash-Shamaliya (Arabic: عصيرة الشماليّة) is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate, located six kilometers north of Nablus in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of approximately 7,556 inhabitants in 2007.[1]
In Arabic, the word Asira means firewood due to the town's (and nearby Asira al-Qibliya's) abundance of forests which was used by residents to sell firewood.[2]
Notable residents
References
Bibliography
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- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 155)
- Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. (p. 770)
- Guérin, Victor (1874). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 1. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (pp. 454 -455)
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2. (p. 128)
- Mills, E., 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.
- Zertal, Adam (2004). The Manasseh Hill Country Survey 1. Boston: BRILL. ISBN 9004137564. (p. 527)
External links
- Asira al-Shamaliya Municipality
- Welcome To 'Asira al-Shamaliya
- SWP map 11, IAA
- SWP map 11, Wikimedia commons
- Asira al-Shamaliya, areal photo, ARIJ
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