Qabatiya

Qabatiyah
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	قباطية
Qabatiya general view (Eastern field)
Qabatiyah Location of Qabatiyah within the Palestinian Territories
Coordinates: 32°24′34.39″N 35°16′51.17″E / 32.4095528°N 35.2808806°ECoordinates: 32°24′34.39″N 35°16′51.17″E / 32.4095528°N 35.2808806°E
Governorate	Jenin
Government
• Type	Municipality
• Head of Municipality	Mr. Ali Zakarneh
Area
• Jurisdiction	50,547 dunams (50.55 km^2 or 19.52 sq mi)
Population (2007)
• Jurisdiction	19,197

Qabatiya (Arabic: قباطية‎, also spelled Qabatia and Qabatiyah) is a Palestinian city located in the Jenin Governorate in the northern West Bank 6 km south of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, the town had a population of 19,197 in 2007.^[1]

Its total land area consists of 50,547 dunams and it is situated approximately 256m above sea level.^[2] Qabatiya is famous for its olive groves, modern agriculture, and limestone industry. It is a part of the Jenin Governorate.

Salah al-Din mosque in the town of Qabatiya.

Teachers at the boys' high school, 1980.

References

1. 2007 Locality Population Statistics. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
2. Qabatiya - قباطية

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. 156)
• 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. 127)
• Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas (PDF). Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
• Monro, Vere (1835). A summer ramble in Syria, with a Tartar trip from Aleppo to Stamboul 1. London: R. Bentley. (Monro, 1835, vol 1, p. 277, cited in Robinson and Smith, vol 3, p. 154)
• 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)
• 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. (Robinson and Smith, vol 3, p. 154)
• 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. 86)

External links

• Welcome To Qabatiya
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Wolfram|Alpha - Qabatiya
• Population statistics