Yatma

Yatma
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	يتما
Yatma, 2012
Yatma Location of Yatma within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 32°06′30.02″N 35°16′06.05″E / 32.1083389°N 35.2683472°E / 32.1083389; 35.2683472Coordinates: 32°06′30.02″N 35°16′06.05″E / 32.1083389°N 35.2683472°E / 32.1083389; 35.2683472
Governorate	Nablus
Government
• Type	Village council
Population (2006)
• Jurisdiction	2,981

Yatma (Arabic: يتما‎‎) is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 15 kilometers south of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 2,981 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.^[1]

History

According to the 1931 census, taken by the British Mandate of Palestine authorities, Yatma had 64 occupied houses and a population of 325, all Muslim.^[2]

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. 287)
Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
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. (p. 639)
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. 136)
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. 250)
Robinson, Edward; Smith, Eli (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. 2. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. (p. 92)
Saulcy, Louis Félicien de (1854). Narrative of a journey round the Dead Sea, and in the Bible lands, in 1850 and 1851. 1, new edition. London: R. Bentley. (Saulcy, 1854, vol 1, p. 103)

External links

Welcome to Yatma
Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons
Yatma, aerial photo

Nablus Governorate
Cities	Nablus (Balata al-Balad • Juneid • Rafidia)
Municipalities	Aqraba (Yanun) Asira al-Shamaliya Beita Beit Furik Huwara Jamma'in Qabalan Sebastia (Nisf Jubeil)
Villages	al-Aqrabaniya Asira al-Qibliya Awarta Azmut al-Badhan Beit Dajan Beit Hasan Beit Iba Beit Imrin Beit Wazan Bizzariya Burin Burqa Deir al-Hatab Deir Sharaf Duma Einabus Ein Shibli Furush Beit Dajan Ijnisinya Iraq Burin Jurish Kafr Qallil al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya (Ammuriya) Madama Majdal Bani Fadil an-Naqura an-Naseriya Odala Osarin Qaryut (Jalud) Qusin Qusra Rujeib Salim Sarra as-Sawiya Talfit Talluza Tell Urif Yasid Yatma Zawata Zeita Jamma'in
Refugee camps	Askar Balata Ein Beit al-Ma'

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