Hebron Governorate

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The Hebron Governorate (Template:Langx) is an administrative district of Palestine in the southern West Bank.

The governorate's land area is Script error: No such module "convert". 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.[1] The city of Hebron is the district capital or muhfaza (seat) of the governorate. The governor is Hussein al-Araj and its district commanderScript error: No such module "Unsubst". is Abdel Fattah al-Ju’eidi.[2]

During the first six months of the First Intifada 42 people in Hebron Governorate were killed by the Israeli army.[3]

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.[1]

Cities

Municipalities

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

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Village councils

The following have populations over 1,000 persons.

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Refugee camps

Demographics

Year Muslims Christians Jews Total Notes and sources
1538 749 h 7 h 20 h 776 h (h = households), Cohen & Lewis[4]
1774 300 Azulai[5]
1817 500 Israel Foreign Ministry[6]
1820 1,000 William Turner[7]
1824 60 h (40 h Sephardim, 20 h Ashkenazim), The Missionary Herald[8]
1832 400 h 100 h 500 h (h = households), Augustin Calmet, Charles Taylor, Edward Robinson[9]
1837 423 Montefiore census
1838 c. 6000–7,000 "few" 700 7–8,000 William McClure Thomson[10]
1839 1295 f 1 f 241 (f = families), David Roberts[11][12]
1840 700–800 James A. Huie[13]
1851 11,000 450 Official register[14]
1851 400 Clorinda Minor[15]
1866 497 Montefiore census
1871–2 2,800 h 200 h 3,000 h Ottoman records for the Syrian provincial sālnāme for these years[16]
1875 8,000–10,000 500 Albert Socin[14]
1875 17,000 600 Hebron Kaymakam[14]
1881 1,000–1,200 PEF Survey of Palestine[14]
1881 800 5,000 The Friend[17]
1890 1,490 Jewish Encyclopedia
1895 1,400 [18]
1906 1,100 14,000 (690 Sephardim, 410 Ashkenazim), Jewish Encyclopedia
1922 16,074 73 430 16,577 1922 census of Palestine[19]
1929 700 Israel Foreign Ministry[6]
1930 0 Israel Foreign Ministry[6]
1931 17,277 109 134 17,532 1931 census of Palestine[20]
1938 0 20,400 Village Statistics, 1938[21]
1945 24,400 150 0 24,560 Village Statistics, 1945[22]
1961 37,868 Jordanian census[23][24]
1967 38,073 136 38,348 Israeli census[25]
1997 n/a n/a 119,093 Palestinian census[26]
2007 n/a n/a 163,146 Palestinian census[27]

See also

References

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  1. ↑ a b Hebron Governorate Statistical Yearbook No. 2; Script error: No such module "webarchive".. pp. 59, 60. PCBS, November 2010.
  2. ↑ Hébron
  3. ↑ B'Tselem information sheet (July 1989). p. 4.
  4. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  5. ↑ רבי חיים יוסף דוד אזולאי, Meir Benayhu, Mosad Harav Kook, 1959.
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  10. ↑ William McClure Thomson, The Land and the Book, Southern Palestine and Jerusalem, p. 275
  11. ↑ Robinson, p. 88
  12. ↑ David Roberts, The Holy Land – 123 Coloured Facsimile Lithographs and The Journal from his visit to the Holy Land. Terra Sancta Arts. 1982. Template:ISBN. Plate III – 13. Journal entry March 17, 1839.
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  14. ↑ a b c d PEF Survey of Western Palestine, Volume III, p. 309
  15. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  16. ↑ Alexander Scholch (Schölch), "The Demographic Development of Palestine, 1850-1882". International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 17, No. 4. (November 1985). p. 486.
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  19. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Hebron, p. 10
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  22. ↑ Government of Palestine (1945), A Survey of Palestine, Vol. 1, p. 151
  23. ↑ First Census, Government of Jordan. 1964, p. 06
  24. ↑ West Bank, Volume 1 Table I – West Bank population according to 1967 census and Jordanian 1961 census, Levy Economics Institute
  25. ↑ West Bank, Volume 1 Table 4 – Population by religion, sex, age, and type of settlement, Levy Economics Institute
  26. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  27. ↑ The last official census in 2007 gave 165,000.2007 Locality Population Statistics Script error: No such module "webarchive". Hebron Governorate Population, Housing and Establishment Census 2007 Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).

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