Farkha
| Farkha | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | فرخة |
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Farkha, 2012 | |
  Farkha Location of Farkha within the Palestinian Territories | |
| Coordinates: 32°4′10.93″N 35°8′56.08″E / 32.0697028°N 35.1489111°ECoordinates: 32°4′10.93″N 35°8′56.08″E / 32.0697028°N 35.1489111°E | |
| Palestine grid | 164/164 |
| Governorate | Salfit |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 1,336 |
Farkha (Arabic: فرخة) is a Palestinian village located in the Salfit Governorate in the northern West Bank, 30 kilometers south of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of approximately 1,336 in 2007.[1]
References
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Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 (PDF). Government of Palestine.
- Canaan, Tawfiq (1927). Mohammedan Saints and Sanctuaries in Palestine. London: Luzac & Co. (p. 76 and n4. Cited in Sharon, 2004, p. 189)
- 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. 284
- 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. (I p. 456)
- Guérin, Victor (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. Vol 2: Samarie, pt. 2. p. 159
- 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. (p.134)
- 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. 229)
- Sharon, Moshe (2004). Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, D-F 3. BRILL. ISBN 90-04-13197-3. pp. 188 -200
External links
- Welcome To Farkha
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Farkha Village (Fact Sheet), ARIJ
- Farkha Village Profile, ARIJ
- Farkha Areal photo, ARIJ
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