Shuqba
| Shuqba | |
|---|---|
| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | شقبه |
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Roadside view of Shuqba, 2012 | |
  Shuqba Location of Shuqba within Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 31°59′13″N 35°2′18″E / 31.98694°N 35.03833°ECoordinates: 31°59′13″N 35°2′18″E / 31.98694°N 35.03833°E | |
| Governorate | Ramallah & al-Bireh |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| Area | |
| • Jurisdiction | 13,390 dunams (13.4 km2 or 5.2 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 4,500 |
Shuqba (Arabic: شقبة) is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 17.71 kilometers northwest of the city of Ramallah in Palestine. It is bounded from the southwest by the village of Qibya, from the southeast by Shabatin, from the northeast by Deir Abu Mish'al and from the north by the Israeli settlement of Ofarim.[1]
Shuqba has a total area of 13,990 dunams and the built-up area comprises 616 dunams.[1] (PCBS), Shuqba was home to approximately 4,497 inhabitants in 2007.[2]
Dorothy Garrod studied the transition of Mesolithic to Neolithic culture represented in a cave on the northern bank of Wadi an-Natuf near Shuqba in 1929, the name "Natufian Culture" was then coined to describe the inhabitants of the southern Levant at this crucial juncture in human history.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Israeli fever of house demolition continues in Shuqba village Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem 2006-03-02
- ↑ 2007 PCBS Census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.113.
- ↑ Elizabeth Knowles (2000) The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-860219-7 p 728
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. 298)
- Finkelstein, Israel; Lederman, Zvi, eds. (1997). Highlands of many cultures. Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. ISBN 965-440-007-3. (pp. 188-189)
- 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. 154)
- Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas (PDF). 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. (p. 245)
External links
- Welcome To Shuqba
- SWP map 14, IAA
- SWP map 14, Wikimedia commons
- Shuqba (Fact Sheet)
- Shuqba Village Profile
- Shuqba (areal photo)
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