Beit Lid
| Beit Lid | |
|---|---|
| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | بيت ليد |
| • Also spelled |
Bayt Lid (official) Bayt Leed (unofficial) |
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View of Beit Lid, 2010 | |
  Beit Lid Location of Beit Lid within the Palestinian Territories | |
| Coordinates: 32°15′38″N 35°06′53″E / 32.26056°N 35.11472°ECoordinates: 32°15′38″N 35°06′53″E / 32.26056°N 35.11472°E | |
| Governorate | Tulkarm |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| • Head of Municipality | Salamah Draidi |
| Area | |
| • Jurisdiction | 16,753 dunams (16.8 km2 or 6.5 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 4,994 |
Beit Lid (Arabic: بيت ليد) is a Palestinian town in the Tulkarm Governorate in the northeastern West Bank, located a few kilometers southwest of Tulkarm and west of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 4,994 inhabitants in 2007.[1] In 1922, its residents amounted to 653, then rose to 1,807 in 1961.[2]
Economy
Agriculture is a major economic sector in Beit Lid, with olives, almonds, figs, grapes and grains being the primary crops grown on 16,753 dunams. Until recently, agriculture employed most of the working males of the town, however, many residents are employed in small business professions, such as construction, blacksmithing and electricity. Many in Beit Lid that worked inside Israel, have been unemployed since the Second Intifada and the difficult conditions surrounding it.[2]
There are four schools (two primary and two secondary), four kindergartens, a clinic operated by the Palestinian National Authority and founded in 1964. Beit Lid contains four mosques, including Masjid al-Qadim, Masjid Fatima Zahra, Masjid as-Salaam and Masjid Salah ad-Din.[2]
References
- ↑ 2007 PCBS census. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). p. 108.
- 1 2 3 Information of Beit Lid PalestineRemembered. 2001-03-21. (Arabic)
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. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 159)
- Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. (p. 768)
- Guérin, Victor (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (pp. 211 -212)
- 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. 126)
- 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. 180)
- Robinson, Edward; Smith, Eli (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. (p. 137)
- Sharon, Moshe (1999). Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, B-C 2. BRILL. ISBN 9004110836. (pp. 152 -153)
External links
- Welcome To Bayt Lid
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11: IAA, Wikimedia commons
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