Sarra, Nablus

Sarra
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	صره
Sarra Location of Sarra within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 32°12′36.35″N 35°11′27.39″E / 32.2100972°N 35.1909417°ECoordinates: 32°12′36.35″N 35°11′27.39″E / 32.2100972°N 35.1909417°E
Governorate	Nablus
Government
• Type	Village council
Population (2006)
• Jurisdiction	2,892

Sarra (Arabic: صره‎‎) is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 11 kilometers southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 2,892 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.^[1]

History

In the 1931 census, taken by the British Mandate of Palestine authorities, Sarra had 106 occupied houses and a population of 382, all Muslim.^[2]

References

1. Projected Mid -Year Population for Nablus Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
2. Mills, 1932, p. 65

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. 164)
• 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. 181)
• 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. (p. 134)
• 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. 192)
• Robinson, Edward; Smith, Eli (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. (p. 138)

External links

• Welcome to Sarra
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 11: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Sarra village profile, ARIJ
• Sarra, aerial photo, ARIJ
• Sarra village