Nuba () is a Palestinian town located eleven kilometers north-west of

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.The town is in the Hebron Governorate of the

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, in the southern

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. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 5,631 in 2017.

History

The village is mentioned in a late 14th-century document of the

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, which ruled

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from

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, where three villagers are named as " [] 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

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in 1516, and in a tax register from 1596, the village was listed as part of the (sbdistrict) of

in the of

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. It had a population of 82

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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, the biblical scholar Edward Robinson noted Nuba as a Muslim village between the

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and Gaza, and administratively attached to 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 from showed that Nuba had 52 houses and a population of 200, though the population count only included men.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.

British Mandate era

In the

1922 census of Palestine The 1922 census of Palestine was the first census carried out by the authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine, on 23 October 1922. The reported population was 757,182, including the military and persons of foreign nationality. The divis ...

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, living in 140 houses.Mills, 1932, p
33
/ref> In the 1945 statistics the population of Nuba was 760, all Muslims, who owned 22,836

dunam A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; ; ; ), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area analogous in role (but not equal) to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amo ...

s 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 period

In the wake of the

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, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Nuba came under

Jordan Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...

ian 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

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in 1967, Nuba has been under

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Notable people from Nuba

* Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, a Palestinian historian.

Footnotes

Bibliography

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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
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The priorities and needs for development in Nuba village based on the community and local authorities’ assessment
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