Al-Majd, Hebron

al-Majd
Other transcription(s)
  Arabic خربة المجد
al-Majd

Location of al-Majd within the Palestinian territories

Coordinates: 31°28′50.14″N 34°57′00.97″E / 31.4805944°N 34.9502694°E / 31.4805944; 34.9502694Coordinates: 31°28′50.14″N 34°57′00.97″E / 31.4805944°N 34.9502694°E / 31.4805944; 34.9502694
Governorate Hebron
Government
  Type Village council
Population (2007)
  Jurisdiction 1,925
Name meaning Glory[1]

al-Majd (Arabic: خربة المجد) is a Palestinian village located eighteen kilometers south-west of Hebron.The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank.

History

In 1883 the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found here "Caves, cisterns, and pillar shafts; a ruined chapel seems to have stood there".[2]

According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,925 in 2007.[3]

Footnotes

  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 404
  2. Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP |II, p. 375
  3. 2007 PCBS Census Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.119.

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