Surda
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| Surda | |
|---|---|
| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | سردا |
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View of Surda, winter 2008 | |
  Surda Location of Surda within the Palestinian Territories | |
| Coordinates: 31°56′29″N 35°12′12″E / 31.94139°N 35.20333°ECoordinates: 31°56′29″N 35°12′12″E / 31.94139°N 35.20333°E | |
| Governorate | Ramallah & al-Bireh |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 1,031 |
Surda (Arabic: سرده) is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 6 kilometers Northeast of Ramallah in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 1,031 inhabitants in 2007.[1]
Surda is the birthplace of notable Palestinian diplomat Hasan Abdel Rahman.
Footnotes
Bibliography
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- 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. 295)
- Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
- Finkelstein, Israel; Lederman, Zvi, eds. (1997). Highlands of many cultures 1. Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. ISBN 965-440-007-3. (I p.423)
- 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. 117)
- 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. 245)
- Socin, A. (1879). "Alphabetisches Verzeichniss von Ortschaften des Paschalik Jerusalem". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 2: 135–163. (p. 161)
External links
- Surda Genealogy: Family Trees, Surda.net
- Welcome To Surda
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Surda (Fact Sheet), ARIJ
- Surda (Village profile), ARIJ
- Surda (Areal photo), ARIJ
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