Nuba, Hebron

Nuba ( ar, نوبا) is a Palestinian village located eleven kilometers north-west of Hebron.The village is in the Hebron Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 4,336 in 2007.2007 PCBS Census
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p. 118.

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".Singer, 1994, p
36
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Ottoman era

Nuba, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1516, 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. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on wheat, barley, vineyards and fruit trees, occasional revenues, goats and/or beehives; a total of 10,000 akçe.

In 1838, Edward Robinson noted Nuba as a Muslim village, between the mountains and Gaza, but subject to the government of Hebron.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p.
117
/ref> It was one of a cluster of villages at the foot of a mountain, together with Kharas and Beit Ula.

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.Socin, 1879, p
158
It was noted in the district of Hebron

In 1883, PEF'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."

In 1896 the population of Nuba was estimated to be about 537 persons.

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Nuba' had a population 357, all Muslims.Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Hebron, p
10
But see talk. This had increased at the time of the 1931 census to 611 Muslims, in 140 houses.Mills, 1932, p
33
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In the 1945 statistics the population of Nuba was 760, all Muslims, who owned 22,836 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey. 403 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 10,116 for cereals, while 33 dunams were built-up (urban) land.

File:Nuba 1945.jpg, Nuba, British Mandate map, 1:20,000
File:Surif 1945.jpg, Nuba 1945 1:250,000

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreementsian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,075 inhabitants in Nuba.Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p
23
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Post-1967

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

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External links

Welcome To The City of NubaNuba
Welcome to Palestine
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 21
IAAWikimedia commonsNuba Village (Fact Sheet)
Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ)
Nuba Village Profile
ARIJ
Nuba aerial photo
ARIJ
The priorities and needs for development in Nuba village based on the community and local authorities’ assessment
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Towns in the West Bank
Hebron Governorate
Municipalities of the State of Palestine