Urif

’Urif
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	عوريف
• Also spelled	Orif[1] (unofficial)
’Urif Location of ’Urif within the Palestinian Territories
Coordinates: 32°09′34″N 35°13′23″E / 32.15944°N 35.22306°ECoordinates: 32°09′34″N 35°13′23″E / 32.15944°N 35.22306°E
Governorate	Nablus
Government
• Type	Village council
Population (2006)
• Jurisdiction	2,839

Urif (Arabic: عوريف‎) is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 13 kilometers (8 miles) south of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 2,839 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.^[2]

History

In the 1931 census, taken by the British Mandate of Palestine authorities, Urif had 103 occupied houses and a population of 402 Muslims and 1 Christian.^[3]

References

1. Palestinian official: Jewish settlers deface West Bank school, Haaretz
2. Projected Mid -Year Population for Nablus Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
3. 1931 British Mandate Census (PDF). p. 66.

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. 287)
• 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. 803)
• Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
• Ellenblum, Ronnie (2003). Frankish Rural Settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521521871. (p. 244)
• Guérin, Victor (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (p. 177)
• 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. 130)
• 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. 246)

External links

• Welcome To 'Urif
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Urif