Saffa, Ramallah
| Saffa | |
|---|---|
| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | صفّا |
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Entrance to Saffa | |
  Saffa Location of Saffa within the Palestinian Territories | |
| Coordinates: 31°54′25″N 35°03′30″E / 31.90694°N 35.05833°ECoordinates: 31°54′25″N 35°03′30″E / 31.90694°N 35.05833°E | |
| Governorate | Ramallah & al-Bireh |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 3,802 |
Saffa (Arabic: صفّا) is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 18 kilometers west of Ramallah in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of approximately 3,802 inhabitants in 2007.[1]
Footnotes
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. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 7 )
- 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. (p. 151)
- Guérin, Victor (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (pp. 48 p. 109? )
- Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
- 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. 329 )
- Röhricht, R. (1887). "Studien zur mittelalterlichen Geographie und Topographie Syriens". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 10: 195–344. (p. 213: proposed identifying the village with Casale Saphet of the Crusader period. Cited in Finkelstein, p. 151)
External links
- Welcome To Saffa
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 17: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Saffa Village (Fact Sheet), ARIJ
- Saffa Village Profile, ARIJ
- Saffa areal photo , ARIJ
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