Silwad
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Silwad سلواد |
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 Palestinian Territories
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| Governorate : | Ramallah and al-Bira | ||
| Coordinates : | 31 ° 58 ' N , 35 ° 16' E | ||
| Height : | 851 m | ||
| Area : | 18.8 km² | ||
| Residents : | 6.123 | ||
| Population density : | 326 inhabitants per km² | ||
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Silwad ( Arabic سلواد, DMG Silwād ) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank , northeast of Ramallah , about 5 km from Highway 60 from Nablus to Jerusalem and belongs to the Governorate of Ramallah and al-Bira. Silwads Höhe is 851 meters above sea level. In 2007, the city had 6,123 inhabitants, according to the Palestinian Bureau of Statistics.
history
In the spring of 1697 Silwad is mentioned in a travel book by Henry Maundrell, who describes the Arab city of Selwid . This is confirmed as Selwad in Edward Robinson's travel book in 1838.
The magazine of the German Palestine Association lists 205 houses in Silwad in 1870.
In the Survey of Western Palestine 1882 Silwad is described as being on a hill, with old graves and good springs.
In 1896, the population is given as 1,845 people, 615 of them able-bodied men . The Palestine Census of the British League of Nations mandate government determined a number of 1,344 Muslims in 1922 and 1631 Muslims and 4 Christians in a total of 380 houses in 1931.
In 1945 1,910 people of Muslim faith lived in Silwad.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Palestinian Central Statistical Office: Census of Population, Housing and Workplaces. Palestinian National Authority, August 2008, p. 113 , accessed March 7, 2019 (Arabic).
- ^ Getty Research Institute: A journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, AD 1697 . Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1703, p. 92 ( archive.org [accessed March 8, 2019]).
- ^ Robarts - University of Toronto: Biblical researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: a journal of travels in the year 1838 . Boston: Crocker, 1841, p. 97 ( archive.org [accessed March 8, 2019]).
- ↑ Alphabetical index of localities of the Paschalik Jerusalem. In: Journal of the German Palestine Association Vol. 2. German Association for the Exploration of Palestine, 1879, accessed on March 8, 2019 .
- ^ CR Conder: The survey of western Palestine: memoirs of the topography, orography, hydrography, and archeology. 1881, accessed March 8, 2019 .
- ↑ C. Schick: On the population of the Jerusalem district. In: Journal of the German Palestine Association. German Association for the Exploration of Palestine, 1896, accessed on March 8, 2019 .
- ^ Palestine Census (1922) . ( archive.org [accessed March 8, 2019]).
- ^ E. Mills: Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. In: Census of Palestine 1931. 1932, p. 50 , accessed on March 8, 2019 (English).
- ^ Village statistics 1945. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, accessed March 8, 2019 .
