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Hebron Governorate

Governorate of Palestine


Governorate of Palestine

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typeGovernorate
image_mapHebron in Palestine.svg
image_skyline2018 OCHA OpT map Hebron.jpg
caption2018 United Nations map of the area, showing the Israeli occupation arrangements in the governorate
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area_total_km21060
population_footnotes
population_total711,223
population_as_of2017 Census
population_noteThis figure excludes the Israeli West Bank settlements
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subdivision_name
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The Hebron Governorate () is an administrative district of Palestine in the southern West Bank.

The governorate's land area is 1060 km2 and its population according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics in mid-year 2019 was 1,004,510. This makes the Hebron Governorate the largest of 16 governorates in both population and land area in the Palestinian territories. The city of Hebron is the district capital or muhfaza (seat) of the governorate. The current Governor of Hebron is Khaled Dudin.

During the first six months of the First Intifada 42 people in Hebron Governorate were killed by the Israeli army.

Localities

The Hebron Governorate has a total of seven cities and eighteen towns. The governorate also contains more than 100 Bedouin villages and settlements that are not listed below.

Cities

  • Dura
  • Halhul
  • Hebron (capital)
  • Yatta
  • ad-Dhahiriya

Municipalities

The following localities have municipality status from the Ministry of Local Government of the Palestinian National Authority.

  • Bani Na'im
  • Beit 'Awwa
  • Beit Ula
  • Beit Ummar
  • Deir Sammit
  • Idhna
  • Kharas
  • Nuba
  • Sa'ir
  • as-Samu
  • Surif
  • Tarqumiya
  • Taffuh

Village councils

The following have populations over 1,000 persons.

  • Al Baqa
  • Beit 'Amra
  • Beit Einun
  • Beit Kahil
  • Beit ar-Rush al-Fauqa
  • al-Burj
  • Deir al-'Asal al-Fauqa
  • ad-Duwwara
  • Hadab al-Fawwar
  • al-Heila
  • Hureiz
  • Imreish
  • Jinba
  • Karma
  • al-Karmil
  • Khalet al-Maiyya
  • Khursa
  • Ruq'a
  • al-Kum
  • Al-Muwarraq
  • As Simiya
  • Khirbet Safa
  • Khirbat al-Simia
  • Kuseis
  • al-Majd
  • Qalqas
  • Qila
  • al-Ramadien
  • ar-Rihiya
  • ash-Shuyukh
  • Shuyukh al-Arrub
  • as-Sura
  • at-Tabaqa
  • al-Uddeisa
  • Zif

Refugee camps

  • al-Arroub
  • al-Fawwar

Demographics

YearMuslimsChristiansJewsTotalNotes and sources15381774181718201824183218371838183918401851185118661871–218751875188118811890189519061922192919301931193819451961196719972007
749 h7 h20 h776 hlast1=Lewisfirst1=Bernardurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=MVp9BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA109title=Population and Revenue in the Towns of Palestine in the Sixteenth Centurylast2=Cohenfirst2=Amnondate=March 8, 2015publisher=Princeton University Pressisbn=978-1-4008-6779-0page=109}}
300Azulai
500title=Hebronurl=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/hebron.htmlwork=Jewish Virtual Library}}
1,000William Turner
60 h(40 h Sephardim, 20 h Ashkenazim), The Missionary Herald
400 h100 h500 hCharles Taylor]], Edward Robinson
423Montefiore census
c. 6000–7,000"few"7007–8,000William McClure Thomson
1295 f1 f241978-965-260-001-1}}. Plate III – 13. Journal entry March 17, 1839.
700–800James A. Huie
11,000450Official register
400Clorinda Minor
497Montefiore census
2,800 h200 h3,000 hOttoman records for the Syrian provincial sālnāme for these years
8,000–10,000500Albert Socin
17,000600Hebron Kaymakam
1,000–1,200PEF Survey of Palestine
8005,000The Friend
1,490Jewish Encyclopedia
1,400
1,10014,000(690 Sephardim, 410 Ashkenazim), Jewish Encyclopedia
16,0747343016,5771922 census of Palestine
700Israel Foreign Ministry
0Israel Foreign Ministry
17,27710913417,532author=Jessie Sampterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3QZ8wqJUfgEC&pg=RA1-PA125title=Modern Palestine – A Symposiumpublisher=Read Booksyear=2007isbn=978-1-4067-3834-6}}
020,400Village Statistics, 1938
24,400150024,560Village Statistics, 1945
37,868Jordanian census
38,07313638,348Israeli census
n/an/a119,093title=Palestinian Census 1997url=http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/_PCBS/census/phc_97/heb_t1.aspxurl-status=deadarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101115053903/http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/_PCBS/census/phc_97/heb_t1.aspxarchive-date=November 15, 2010}}
n/an/a163,146url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101210081942/http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1487.pdfdate=2010-12-10}} Hebron Governorate Population, Housing and Establishment Census 2007 . Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).

References

References

  1. "Main Indicators by Type of Locality - Population, Housing and Establishments Census 2017". [[Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics]] (PCBS).
  2. [http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1710.pdf ''Hebron Governorate Statistical Yearbook No. 2'']; {{Webarchive. link. (2016-03-04 . pp. 59, 60. PCBS, November 2010.)
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  4. "محافظة الخليل".
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  6. (March 8, 2015). "Population and Revenue in the Towns of Palestine in the Sixteenth Century". Princeton University Press.
  7. [https://books.google.com/books?id=QgMPAQAAIAAJ רבי חיים יוסף דוד אזולאי], Meir Benayhu, Mosad Harav Kook, 1959.
  8. "Hebron". Jewish Virtual Library.
  9. Turner, W.. (1820). "Journal of a tour in the Levant". John Murray.
  10. (March 1825). "American Board of Foreign Missions: Palestine Mission". The Missionary Herald.
  11. Augustin Calmet. (1832). "Dictionary of the Holy Bible". Crocker and Brewster.
  12. [[William McClure Thomson]], [[iarchive:32882013064392-southernpalesti/page/n341/mode/1up. ''The Land and the Book, Southern Palestine and Jerusalem'']], p. 275
  13. Robinson, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa&cc=moa&idno=afg7241.0002.001&q1=hebron&frm=frameset&view=image&seq=106 p. 88]
  14. David Roberts, ''The Holy Land – 123 Coloured Facsimile Lithographs and The Journal from his visit to the Holy Land''. Terra Sancta Arts. 1982. {{ISBN. 978-965-260-001-1. Plate III – 13. Journal entry March 17, 1839.
  15. James A. Huie. (1840). "The history of the Jews, from the taking of Jerusalem by Titus to the present time [by J.A. Huie].".
  16. ''PEF Survey of Western Palestine'', Volume III, p. 309
  17. Clorinda Minor. (1851). "Meshullam!: Or, Tidings from Jerusalem". Arno Press.
  18. Alexander Scholch (Schölch), [https://www.jstor.org/stable/163415 "The Demographic Development of Palestine, 1850-1882"]. ''[[International Journal of Middle East Studies]]'' Vol. 17, No. 4. (November 1985). p. 486.
  19. (May 28, 1881). "Jewish Life in the East". The Friend.
  20. Tzvi Rabinowicz. (1996). "The Encyclopedia of Hasidism". Jason Aronson.
  21. Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Hebron, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n12/mode/1up 10]
  22. Jessie Sampter. (2007). "Modern Palestine – A Symposium". Read Books.
  23. (1938). "Village Statistics".
  24. Government of Palestine (1945), ''A Survey of Palestine'', Vol. 1, p. 151
  25. ''First Census'', Government of Jordan. 1964, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensusPages/JordanCensus1961-p06.pdf 06]
  26. [http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/1967_census/vol_1_intro_tab_i.pdf West Bank, Volume 1 Table I – West Bank population according to 1967 census and Jordanian 1961 census], [[Levy Economics Institute]]
  27. [http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/1967_census/vol_1_tab_4.pdf West Bank, Volume 1 Table 4 – Population by religion, sex, age, and type of settlement], [[Levy Economics Institute]]
  28. "Palestinian Census 1997".
  29. The last official census in 2007 gave 165,000.[http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1487.pdf 2007 Locality Population Statistics] {{webarchive. link. (2010-12-10 [http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1583.pdf Hebron Governorate Population, Housing and Establishment Census 2007] {{Webarchive). link. (2012-03-04. [[Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics]] (PCBS).)
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