Nuba | |
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Arabic transcription(s) | |
• Arabic | نوبا |
Location of Nuba within
Palestine | |
Coordinates: 31°36′26″N 35°02′12″E / 31.60722°N 35.03667°E | |
Palestine grid | 153/112 |
State | State of Palestine |
Governorate | Hebron |
Government | |
• Type | Municipality |
Population (2017)
[1] | |
• Total | 5,631 |
Name meaning | probably meaning "a top" [2] |
Nuba ( Arabic: نوبا) is a Palestinian village located eleven kilometers north-west of Hebron.The village is in the Hebron Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 5,631 in 2017. [1]
The village is mentioned in a late 14th-century document of the Mamluk Sultanate, which ruled Palestine from Cairo, where three villagers are named as "al'ru'asā [ lit. 'the leaders'] in the village of Nūbā". [3]
Nuba, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1516, and in a tax register from 1596, the village was listed as part of the nahiya (sbdistrict) of Hebron in the Liwa of Jerusalem. It had a population of 82 Muslim households. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on wheat, barley, vineyards and fruit trees, occasional revenues, goats and/or beehives; a total of 10,000 akçe. [4]
In 1838, the biblical scholar Edward Robinson noted Nuba as a Muslim village between the mountains and Gaza, and administratively attached to Hebron. [5] It was one of a cluster of villages at the foot of a mountain, together with Kharas and Beit Ula. [6] An Ottoman village list from c. 1870 showed that Nuba had 52 houses and a population of 200, though the population count only included men. [7] [8] In 1883, PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Nuba as a "small village perched on a low hill, with a well about a mile to the east." [9] In 1896 the population of Nuba was estimated to be about 537. [10]
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Nuba' had a population 357, all Muslims. [11] This had increased at the time of the 1931 census to 611 Muslims, living in 140 houses. [12] In the 1945 statistics the population of Nuba was 760, all Muslims, [13] who owned 22,836 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey. [14] 403 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 10,116 for cereals, [15] while 33 dunams were built-up (urban) land. [16]
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Nuba came under Jordanian rule. The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,075 inhabitants in Nuba. [17]
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Nuba has been under Israeli occupation.
Nuba | |
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Arabic transcription(s) | |
• Arabic | نوبا |
Location of Nuba within
Palestine | |
Coordinates: 31°36′26″N 35°02′12″E / 31.60722°N 35.03667°E | |
Palestine grid | 153/112 |
State | State of Palestine |
Governorate | Hebron |
Government | |
• Type | Municipality |
Population (2017)
[1] | |
• Total | 5,631 |
Name meaning | probably meaning "a top" [2] |
Nuba ( Arabic: نوبا) is a Palestinian village located eleven kilometers north-west of Hebron.The village is in the Hebron Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 5,631 in 2017. [1]
The village is mentioned in a late 14th-century document of the Mamluk Sultanate, which ruled Palestine from Cairo, where three villagers are named as "al'ru'asā [ lit. 'the leaders'] in the village of Nūbā". [3]
Nuba, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1516, and in a tax register from 1596, the village was listed as part of the nahiya (sbdistrict) of Hebron in the Liwa of Jerusalem. It had a population of 82 Muslim households. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on wheat, barley, vineyards and fruit trees, occasional revenues, goats and/or beehives; a total of 10,000 akçe. [4]
In 1838, the biblical scholar Edward Robinson noted Nuba as a Muslim village between the mountains and Gaza, and administratively attached to Hebron. [5] It was one of a cluster of villages at the foot of a mountain, together with Kharas and Beit Ula. [6] An Ottoman village list from c. 1870 showed that Nuba had 52 houses and a population of 200, though the population count only included men. [7] [8] In 1883, PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Nuba as a "small village perched on a low hill, with a well about a mile to the east." [9] In 1896 the population of Nuba was estimated to be about 537. [10]
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Nuba' had a population 357, all Muslims. [11] This had increased at the time of the 1931 census to 611 Muslims, living in 140 houses. [12] In the 1945 statistics the population of Nuba was 760, all Muslims, [13] who owned 22,836 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey. [14] 403 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 10,116 for cereals, [15] while 33 dunams were built-up (urban) land. [16]
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Nuba came under Jordanian rule. The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,075 inhabitants in Nuba. [17]
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Nuba has been under Israeli occupation.