Yabrud, Ramallah

Yabrud
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	يبرود
View of Yabrud from the south, 2011
Yabrud Location of Yabrud within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 31°58′31″N 35°14′37″E / 31.97528°N 35.24361°ECoordinates: 31°58′31″N 35°14′37″E / 31.97528°N 35.24361°E
Governorate	Ramallah & al-Bireh
Government
• Type	Village council
• Head of Municipality	Salah Muhammad Ahmad Radi
Area
• Jurisdiction	2,500 dunams (2.5 km^2 or 1.0 sq mi)
Population (2007)
• Jurisdiction	644

Yabrud (Arabic: يبرود‎‎) is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank. It is located approximately 13 km northeast of the city of Ramallah and its elevation is 790 m. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) 2007 estimates, the town had a population of 644.

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. 292)
• Dauphin, Claudine (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. (p. 829)
• Finkelstein, Israel; Lederman, Zvi, eds. (1997). Highlands of many cultures. Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University Publications Section. ISBN 965-440-007-3. (II p. 565)
• Guérin, Victor (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. (p. 37)
• 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. 115)
• 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. 250)
• le Strange, Guy (1890). Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund., (p. 550)

External links

• Official website - archived (Arabic)
• Welcome to Yabrud
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 14: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Riwaq's Registry of Historic Buildings in Palestine - Yabrud (Arabic)
• Village (fact sheet), ARIJ
• http://vprofile.arij.org/ramallah/pdfs/vprofile/Yabrud_vp_en[1].pdf Yabrud village profile, ARIJ
• Yabrud aerial photo, ARIJ