Nuba, Hebron

Nuba
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	نوبا
Nuba Location of Nuba within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 31°36′25.96″N 35°02′12.24″E / 31.6072111°N 35.0367333°ECoordinates: 31°36′25.96″N 35°02′12.24″E / 31.6072111°N 35.0367333°E
Palestine grid	153/112
Governorate	Hebron
Government
• Type	Municipality
Population (2007)
• Jurisdiction	4,336
Name meaning	probably meaning "a top"[1]

Nuba (Arabic: نوبا‎‎) is a Palestinian village located eleven kilometers north-west of Hebron.The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 4,336 in 2007.^[2]

History

The village is mentioned in a late 14th-century document of the Mamluk Sultanate who ruled Palestine from Cairo where three villagers are named as "ar'ru'asā ["the leaders"] in the village of Nūbā".^[3]

Ottoman era

Nuba, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village appeared in the tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Halil of the Liwa of Quds. It had a population of 82 Muslim households and paid taxes on wheat, barley, vineyards and fruit trees, occasional revenues, goats and/or beehives.^[4]

An Ottoman village list of about 1870 showed that Nuba had 52 houses and a population of 200, though the population count included men only.^[5]

In 1883, Palestine Exploration Fund'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."^[6]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Nuba' had a population 357, all Muslims.^[7] This had increased at the time of the 1931 census to 611 Muslims, in 140 houses.^[8]

In 1945 the population of Nuba was 760, all Muslims,^[9] who owned 22,836 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.^[10] 403 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 10,116 for cereals,^[11] while 33 dunams were built-up (urban) land.^[12]

1948-1967

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Nuba came under Jordanian rule.

Post-1967

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

Footnotes

1. Palmer, 1881, p. 405
2. 2007 PCBS Census Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p. 118.
3. Singer, 1994, p. 36.
4. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 124
5. Socin, 1879, p. 158
6. Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 309
7. Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Hebron, p. 10. But see talk.
8. Mills, 1932, p. 33
9. Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 23
10. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 50
11. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 93
12. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 143

Bibliography

• Barron, J. B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
• Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, Herbert H. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
• Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
• Hadawi, Sami (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
• Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
• Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas (PDF). 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.
• Singer, Amy (1994). Palestinian peasants and Ottoman officials: rural administration around sixteenth-century Jerusalem (3rd, illustrated ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-47679-8.
• Socin, A. (1879). "Alphabetisches Verzeichniss von Ortschaften des Paschalik Jerusalem". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 2: 135–163.

External links

• Welcome To The City of Nuba
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 21: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Nuba Village (Fact Sheet)
• Nuba Village Profile
• Nuba aerial photo
• The priorities and needs for development in Nuba village based on the community and local authorities’ assessment