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Kh. Ras Et Tire
Ras Atiya ( ar, رأس عطيّه; he, ראס עטיה) is a Palestinians, Palestinian town in the Qalqilya Governorate in the western area of the West Bank, located 27 km south of Tulkarm and 11 km south of Qalqiliya. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of approximately 1,599 inhabitants in 2006. Location Ras ‘Atiya (including ''Ras at Tira'' and ''Wadi ar Rasha'') is located 4-5 km south of Qalqiliya. It is bordered by ‘Izbat al Ashqar to the east, Ad Dab’a to the east and south, ‘Izbat Jalud and Al Mudawwar to the south, Hableh, Habla to the west, and An Nabi Elyas and ‘Arab Abu Farda to the north. Post-1967 After the Six-Day War in 1967, the area has been under Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Israeli occupation. After the Oslo II Accord, 1995 accords, 32.2 % of Ras 'Atiya land is defined as Area B, while the remainder 67.8 % is Area C (West Bank), Area C. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic Script
The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used writing system in the world by number of countries using it or a script directly derived from it, and the third-most by number of users (after the Latin and Chinese scripts). The script was first used to write texts in Arabic, most notably the Quran, the holy book of Islam. With the religion's spread, it came to be used as the primary script for many language families, leading to the addition of new letters and other symbols. Such languages still using it are: Persian (Farsi/Dari), Malay ( Jawi), Uyghur, Kurdish, Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Sindhi, Balti, Balochi, Pashto, Lurish, Urdu, Kashmiri, Rohingya, Somali and Mandinka, Mooré among others. Until the 16th century, it was also used for some Spanish texts, and—prior to the language reform in 1928—it was the writing system of Turkish. The script is written from right to left in a cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
