Hajjah, Qalqilya
For other uses, see Hajjah (disambiguation).
| Hajjah | |
|---|---|
| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | حجة |
| • Also spelled |
Hajjah (official) Haja (unofficial) |
  Hajjah Location of Hajjah within the Palestinian Territories | |
| Coordinates: 32°12′17.08″N 35°07′50.05″E / 32.2047444°N 35.1305694°ECoordinates: 32°12′17.08″N 35°07′50.05″E / 32.2047444°N 35.1305694°E | |
| Governorate | Qalqilya |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 2,500 |
Hajjah (Arabic: حجة) is a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank, located eighteen kilometers west of Nablus in the Qalqilya Governorate. Hajjah is originally an Aramaic word translated as "market" or "society". According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of approximately 2,500 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.[1]
References
Bibliography
- Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 (PDF). 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. 166)
- Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. (p. 798)
- Guérin, Victor (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. p. 180
- 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. 139)
- 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. 187)
- Sharon, Moshe (2013). Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, H-I 5. BRILL. ISBN 90-04-25097-2. (Sharon, 2013, p. 270)
External links
- Welcome To Hajja
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Hajja Village (Fact Sheet), ARIJ
- Hajja Village Profile, ARIJ
- Hajja, areal photo, ARIJ
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