Beit Ijza

Beit Ijza
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	ﻴﺕِﺒ ﺍﺯﺇﺠ
• Also spelled	Bayt Ijza (official)
View of Beit Ijza, 2012
Beit Ijza Location of Beit Ijza within the Palestinian Territories
Coordinates: 31°51′N 35°09′E / 31.850°N 35.150°ECoordinates: 31°51′N 35°09′E / 31.850°N 35.150°E
Governorate	Jerusalem
Government
• Type	Local Development Committee
Population (2007)
• Jurisdiction	698

Beit Ijza (Arabic: ﻴﺕِﺒ ﺍﺯﺇﺠ‎, also spelled Bayt Ijza; Hebrew: בית איג'זא) is a village in the Jerusalem Governorate in the central West Bank with an area of 2,526 dunams. Located approximately six miles north of Jerusalem, it had a population of 698 in 2007.^[1]

References

1. Population, Housing and Establishment Census 2007. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). 2008. Retrieved on 2012-02-27.

Bibliography

• Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 (PDF). Government of Palestine.
• Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, Herbert H. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 16)
• 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. 119)
• 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.
• Pringle, Denys (1997). Secular buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: an archaeological Gazetter. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521 46010 7. (pp. 17 - 18: this shows Beit Ijza, according to Pringle, 2009, p. 234)
• Pringle, Denys (2009). The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: Volume IV The cities of Acre and Tyre with Addenda and Corrigenda to Volumes I-III. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-85148-0. (p. 234)

External links

• Welcome To Bayt Ijza
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 17: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Bayt Ijza Village (Fact Sheet)
• Beit Ijza Village Profile
• Beit Ijza Areal photo
• POICA