Tarqumiyah

Tarqumiyah
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	ترقوميا
Tarqumiyah Location of Tarqumiyah within the Palestinian Territories
Coordinates: 31°34′30″N 35°00′47″E / 31.57500°N 35.01306°ECoordinates: 31°34′30″N 35°00′47″E / 31.57500°N 35.01306°E
Governorate	Hebron
Government
• Type	City
Population (2007)
• Jurisdiction	14,357

Tarqumiyah (Arabic: ترقوميا‎) is a Palestinian town located twelve kilometers northwest of Hebron.The town is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of over 14,357 in 2007.^[1]

Footnotes

1. 2007 PCBS Census Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.118.

Bibliography

• Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 (PDF). Government of Palestine.
• Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. ISBN 0-860549-05-4. (p. 938)
• 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. 310)
• Guérin, Victor (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 1: Judee, pt. 3. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (p. 345)
• 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. 123)
• 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. 408)
• Robinson, Edward; Smith, Eli (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838 2. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. (p. 399)
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• A. Socin (1879). "Alphabetisches Verzeichniss von Ortschaften des Paschalik Jerusalem". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 2: 135–163. (p. 162)

External links

• Welcome To Tarqumiya
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 21: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Tarqumiya Town (Fact Sheet)
• Tarqumiya Town Profile
• Tarqumiya Areal photo
• The priorities and needs for development in Tarqumiya town based on the community and local authorities’ assessment