Nuba, Hebron

Nuba
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicنوبا
Nuba is located in State of Palestine
Nuba
Nuba
Location of Nuba within Palestine
Coordinates: 31°36′26″N 35°02′12″E / 31.60722°N 35.03667°E / 31.60722; 35.03667
Palestine grid153/112
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateHebron
Government
 • TypeMunicipality
Population
 (2017)[1]
 • Total5,631
Name meaningprobably 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]

History

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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]

Ottoman era

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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]

British Mandate era

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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]

Jordanian period

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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]

Post-1967

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Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Nuba has been under Israeli occupation.

Notable people from Nuba

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ a b Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report). State of Palestine. February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  2. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 405
  3. ^ Singer, 1994, p. 36
  4. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 124
  5. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 117
  6. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 2, p. 426
  7. ^ Socin, 1879, p. 158 It was noted in the district of Hebron
  8. ^ Hartmann, 1883, p. 143, noted 51 houses
  9. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 309
  10. ^ Schick, 1896, p. 123
  11. ^ Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Hebron, p. 10. But see talk.
  12. ^ Mills, 1932, p. 33
  13. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 23
  14. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 50
  15. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 93
  16. ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 143
  17. ^ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 23

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