Qaffin
| Qaffin | |
|---|---|
| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | قفّين |
| • Also spelled | Qaffein (official) |
  Qaffin Location of Qaffin within the Palestinian Territories | |
| Coordinates: 32°26′00.06″N 35°05′00.69″E / 32.4333500°N 35.0835250°ECoordinates: 32°26′00.06″N 35°05′00.69″E / 32.4333500°N 35.0835250°E | |
| Governorate | Tulkarm |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| • Head of Municipality | Tayseer Harsha |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 8,387 |
Qaffin (Arabic: قفّين) is a Palestinian town located 22 kilometers (14 mi) northeast of Tulkarm in the Tulkarm Governorate in the northwestern West Bank. The town is an agricultural town. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, its population consisted over 8,387 inhabitants in 2007.[1] The built-up area of the town is 1,000 dunams.[2]
References
- ↑ 2007 PCBS census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). p. 107.
- ↑ Israeli Settlers set fire into 200 dunums of Qaffin Village Lands The Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem. 2007-06-17.
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 (PDF). 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. 47)
- 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. (z26 on p. 161?)
- 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. 150)
External links
- Welcome To Qaffein
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: IAA, Wikimedia commons
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