Illar, Tulkarm

'Illar
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	عِلار
'Illar Location of 'Illar within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 32°22′12.31″N 35°06′26.95″E / 32.3700861°N 35.1074861°ECoordinates: 32°22′12.31″N 35°06′26.95″E / 32.3700861°N 35.1074861°E
Governorate	Tulkarm
Government
• Type	Municipality
Population (2007[1])
• Jurisdiction	6,190

'Illar (Arabic: عِلار‎‎) is a Palestinian town in the Tulkarm Governorate in the eastern West Bank, located 20 kilometers Northeast of Tulkarm. According to a census conducted in 1931 by the British Mandate authorities, Kfar Abbush had a population of 1047 inhabitants, in 268 houses.^[2] According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 'Illar had a population of approximately 6,190 inhabitants in 2007.^[1] 6.6% of the population of 'Illar were refugees in 1997.^[3] The healthcare facilities for the surrounding villages are based in 'Illar, the facilities are designated as MOH level 2.^[4]

Footnotes

1. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
2. Mills, 1932, p.55
3. Palestinian Population by Locality and Refugee Status Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
4. Health care Facilities Tulkarm Governorate

Bibliography

• Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
• Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 154)
• Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
• Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
• Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 182)

External links

• Welcome To 'Illar
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11: IAA, Wikimedia commons