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Ras Karkar
Ras Karkar () is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate of the State of Palestine, located northwest of Ramallah in the northern West Bank. Ras Karkar is a small village situated atop a commanding hill. One of the throne villages of the late Ottoman period,Macalister and Masterman, 1905, p354/ref>Irving, 2012, p248/ref> It is home to a fortified sheikh house built during the early 19th century by the Simhan family. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 1,956 inhabitants in 2017. Location Ras Karkar is bordered by Al-Janiya to the east, Al-Itihad to the north, Kharbatha Bani Harith to the west, and Kafr Ni'ma to the south. History Potsherds from the Hellenistic, Mamluk and early Ottoman era have been found. Ottoman era Ras Karkar does not appear in 16th century records. It is home to a fortress that was built, possibly in 1812, by the SImhan family which dominated the area in the 19th century. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Arabic Script
The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic (Arabic alphabet) and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world (after the Latin script), the second-most widely used List of writing systems by adoption, writing system in the world by number of countries using it, and the third-most by number of users (after the Latin and Chinese characters, Chinese scripts). The script was first used to write texts in Arabic, most notably the Quran, the holy book of Islam. With Spread of Islam, 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 Arabic language, Arabic, Persian language, Persian (Western Persian, Farsi and Dari), Urdu, Uyghur language, Uyghur, Kurdish languages, Kurdish, Pashto, Punjabi language, Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Sindhi language, Sindhi, South Azerbaijani, Azerb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
