Khursa

Khursa (Arabic: كرزه‎) is a Palestinian village located seven kilometers south-west of Hebron. The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 3,440 in 2007.[1] The primary health care facilities for the village are designated by the Ministry of Health as level 2.[2]

Khursa
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicكرزه
 • LatinKharsa (official)
Khursa
Location of Khursa within Palestine
Coordinates: 31°26′25″N 34°59′57″E
Palestine grid150/094
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateHebron
Government
 • TypeVillage council
Population
 (2007)
 • Total3,440

Etymology

According to Palmer, the name Khirbet Kurza means "the ruin of kurza", a pine cone.[3]

History

In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine found here "walls, caves, a well, and a vault, probably a cistern. There were several cisterns and a sacred place to the west. Some of the ruins appear to be modern, some ancient."[4]

Footnotes
  1. 2007 PCBS Census Archived 2010-12-10 at the Wayback Machine Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.119.
  2. West Bank Health care Archived 2006-03-13 at the Library of Congress Web Archives
  3. Palmer, 1881, p 400
  4. Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 359

Bibliography
  • Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • 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.
gollark: Possibly. I may be able to get one before then.
gollark: Kind of regretting giving away my garland. Now I can't get another. Stupid cave.
gollark: I think the actual IRC protocol is full of ridiculous stuff and legacy cruft anyway, but I like the *concept*.
gollark: Discord is entirely centralized, all your stuff is just hosted on their servers.
gollark: IRC is, critically, *decentralized* - anyone can run an IRC server. Theoretically, anyway.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.