Shuyukh al-Arrub

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Location

Shuyukh al-Arrub is located 11 km north of Hebron City. It is bordered by Kuziba and Irqan Turad to the east, Beit Fajjar to the north, Halhul and Sa'ir to the south and Al 'Arrub Camp to the west.[3]

History

Roman period

See Solomon's Pools for the Script error: No such module "convert". long el-Arrub aqueduct built by the Roman prefect Pontius Pilate.

Mamluk period

In AH 892 (1487 CE), Qansuh Al Yahyawi, the Mamluk viceroy of Damascus, renewed the water supply from Ain al-Arrub (Arrub Spring).[4]

Late Ottoman period

In the 1850s, people from Ash Shuyukh settled the area.[5]

In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Birket el 'Arrub as: "one of the main reservoirs supplying the aqueduct to Jerusalem. There are two channels, one from Birket Kufin, one from 'Ain Kueiziba, which join [here]."[6]

Jordanian period

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Shuyukh al-Arrub came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 242 inhabitants in Shuyukh Arrub.[7]

1967 and aftermath

Since the 1967 Six Day War, Shuyukh al-Arrub has been under Israeli occupation.

References

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  3. Shuyukh Al 'Arrub village profile, ARIJ, p. 3
  4. Mayer, 1933, p. 180
  5. Shuyukh Al 'Arrub village profile, ARIJ, p. 4
  6. Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP II, pp. 325-6
  7. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 23

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Bibliography

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