Qaryut
Qaryout | |
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Other transcription(s) | |
• Arabic | قريوت |
• Also spelled |
Qaryout (official) Karyut (unofficial) |
Qaryout Location of Qaryout within the Palestinian territories | |
Coordinates: 32°04′15.34″N 35°17′38.44″E / 32.0709278°N 35.2940111°ECoordinates: 32°04′15.34″N 35°17′38.44″E / 32.0709278°N 35.2940111°E | |
Governorate | Nablus |
Government | |
• Type | Village council |
Population (2006) | |
• Jurisdiction | 2,469 |
Qaryout (Arabic: قريوت) is a Palestinian village of nearly 2,500 in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank, located 28 kilometers (17 mi) southeast of Nablus. Western travelers identified Qaryut with ancient Coreae.[1]
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), Qaryut had a population of 2,469 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.[2]
Notable people
- Taysir Khalid (born 1941), Palestinian politician
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. 288)
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- Guérin, Victor (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (p. 20)
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- 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. (p. 238)
- Ritter, Carl (1886). The Comparative Geography of Palestine and the Sinaitic Peninsula. 2. T. & T. Clark.
External links
- Welcome To Qaryut
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Qaryut Village profile (including Jalud Locality), ARIJ
- Qaryut, aerial photo, ARIJ
- More than 100 olive trees uprooted in West Bank, Palestinians report by Jack Khoury, Oct. 19, 2013, Haaretz
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