Dura (Palestine)
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Dura دورا |
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 Palestinian Territories
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| Area: | West Bank | ||
| Governorate : | Hebron | ||
| Founded : | 1967 | ||
| Coordinates : | 31 ° 30 ' N , 35 ° 2' E | ||
| Area : | 21.1 km² | ||
| Residents : | 42,200 (2020) | ||
| Population density : | 2,000 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Time zone : | UTC + 2 | ||
| Community type: | city | ||
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Dura ( Arabic دورا, DMG Dūrā ) is a city within the Hebron Governorate of the Palestinian Authority or the State of Palestine . It is located in the south of the West Bank .
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the city had 39,336 inhabitants as of mid-2017. By 2020 this number rose to 42,174 inhabitants.
history
Dura is an ancient place where ancient cisterns and mosaic fragments were found. The settlement was already in the 14th century BC. Mentioned in the Amarna letters . In the Bible ( 1st Book of the Maccabees ) reference is made to the settlement under the name of Adurim or Adora.
In 1517 the former village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine . In 1834, Dura's residents took part in an uprising against the Egyptian Ibrahim Pasha , who took over the area between 1831 and 1840. When Edward Robinson visited the area in 1838, he described Dura as one of the largest villages in the region.
After the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 , the area came under Jordanian rule. Dura was established as a community on January 1, 1967, five months before it came under Israeli occupation after the Six Day War . After the Palestinian Authority gained control of the city in 1995, a local committee was set up to prevent land seizures from the city and the local council expanded. Many Palestinian ministries and government institutions opened offices in Dura, thereby strengthening their role in Palestinian politics. In 1995 the city became part of Area A under the Palestinian Authority. The Israeli settlement of Adora is located a few kilometers from the place .
Population development
| Census year | population |
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| 1997 | 15,503 |
| 2007 | 28,268 |
| 2017 | 39,336 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dura (Al-Khalil, West Bank, Palestinian Territories) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map, Location, Weather and Web Information. Retrieved June 30, 2020 .
- ^ B. Bar-Kochva, Judas Maccabaeus: The Jewish Struggle Against the Seleucids, Cambridge University Press , 2002 p.285.
- ↑ James L. Kugel , A Walk Through Jubilees: Studies in the Book of Jubilees and the World of Its Creation, BRILL, 2012 p.303,