Atara (Palestine)
Coordinates: 32 ° 0 ′ 9 ″ N , 35 ° 12 ′ 22 ″ E
Atara (Arabic: عطارة) is a town in the West Bank about ten kilometers north of the city of Ramallah . It has approx. 2300 inhabitants (2007). Atara is 810 meters above sea level.
Neighboring places
Two kilometers south of Atara is the town of Bir Zait , two kilometers north of the newly emerging town of Rawabi .
history
Atara was first mentioned in 1596 in an Ottoman tax register as a taxpayer with 55 Muslim households. a. paid for wheat, olives, vines, fruit trees or beehives. In 1922, the Jewish National Fund founded a moshaw here . It became known as Ataroth , one of the first Zionist settlements in Palestine.
Attractions
One of the attractions is the shrine of Sheikh Al Qatrawani at the entrance to the village.
Web links
Commons : Atara - album with pictures, videos and audio files
Footnotes
- ^ Projected Mid-Year Population for Ramallah & Al Bireh Governorate by Locality 2004-2006. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
- ↑ The Struggles of a Palestinian Community due to the West Bank Closure ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem, February 2, 2001
- ↑ Rawabi is building dreams brick by brick. Gulf News , Jan. 16, 2010
- ↑ Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth and Kamal Abdulfattah, Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlangen Geographical Works, special volume 5, p. 114. Erlangen: Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft, 1977
- ^ Sufi Trails Exploring the Hidden Heritage of Palestine. This Week in Palestine, # 167, March 2012
