Arraba, Jenin
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Arraba, Jenin
This article is about the town in the northern West Bank. For the Arab town in the Galilee, see Arraba, Galilee.
| Arrabah | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | عرّابة |
| • Also spelled | Arraba (official) Arrabeh (unofficial) |
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 Arrabah
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| Coordinates: 32°24′16.63″N 35°12′12.20″E / 32.4046194°N 35.203389°ECoordinates: 32°24′16.63″N 35°12′12.20″E / 32.4046194°N 35.203389°E | |
| Governorate | Jenin |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality (from 1995) |
| • Head of Municipality | Adib al-Ardah |
| Area | |
| • Jurisdiction | 39,558 dunams (40.5 km2 or 15.6 sq mi) |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 10,000 |
Arraba (Arabic: عرّابة ALA-LC ʻArrābah), also Arrabah, Arrabeh or Arrabet Jenin, a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank located 13 kilometers southwest of Jenin. The village is 350 meters above sea level and lies near Sahl Arrabah, a plain that lies between Mount Carmel and Nablus. Arrabah has a population 10,000, all Muslim.[1]
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History
The lands of Arrabah include Khirbet al-Hamam and Tel el-Muhafer, either of which believed to be the site of the Canaanite town Arubboth from the Books of Kings (Rubutu in the Egyptian documents) and the city Narbata of the Roman period.[2][3] Arraba is the origin of the Abd al-Hadis, once a leading landowning family in the districts of Afula, Baysan, Jenin, and Nablus.[4][5]
Notable residents
References
- ^ Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
- ^ Zertal, Adam; Arubboth, Hepher, and the Third Solomonic District, 1984: 72-76, 112-114, 133-136
- ^ Na'aman, Nadav; Canaan in the second millennium B.C.E., 2005: 212.
- ^ Lesch, Ann M.; "Abd al-Hadi Family", Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. [1]
- ^ Doumani, 1995, Chapter: Egyptian rule, 1831-1840.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Arrabah |
- The Municipality's official website (Arabic)
- Beshara Doumani's Rediscovering Palestine Contains an account of the relations between Jabal Nablus and the Ottomans. (Full text ).
- Palestine remembered
- Riwaq database of historical buildings (Arabic)
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