Qaryut

Qaryout
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	قريوت
• Also spelled	Qaryout (official) Karyut (unofficial)
Qaryout Location of Qaryout within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 32°04′15.34″N 35°17′38.44″E / 32.0709278°N 35.2940111°ECoordinates: 32°04′15.34″N 35°17′38.44″E / 32.0709278°N 35.2940111°E
Governorate	Nablus
Government
• Type	Village council
Population (2006)
• Jurisdiction	2,469

Qaryout (Arabic: قريوت‎‎) is a Palestinian village of nearly 2,500 in the Nablus Governorate in the northern West Bank, located 28 kilometers (17 mi) southeast of Nablus. Western travelers identified Qaryut with the ancient Coreae.^[1]

According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), Qaryut had a population of 2,469 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.^[2]

Notable people

• Taysir Khalid (born 1941), Palestinian politician

References

1. Ritter, 1866, vol 2, p. 345
2. Projected Mid -Year Population for Nablus Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

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. 288)
• Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945. Government of Palestine.
• Guérin, Victor (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (p. 20)
• 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. 238)
• Ritter, Carl (1886). The Comparative Geography of Palestine and the Sinaitic Peninsula. 2. T. & T. Clark.

External links

• Welcome To Qaryut
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Qaryut Village profile (including Jalud Locality), ARIJ
• Qaryut, aerial photo, ARIJ
• More than 100 olive trees uprooted in West Bank, Palestinians report by Jack Khoury, Oct. 19, 2013, Haaretz