Kisra-Sumei Explained

Kisra-Sumei
Translit Lang1:	Hebrew
Translit Lang1 Type1:	ISO 259
Translit Lang1 Info1:	Kisraˀ - Sumeiˁ
Pushpin Map:	Israel northwest#Israel
Coordinates:	32.9639°N 35.3022°W
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Israel
Subdivision Type2:	District
Subdivision Name2:	Northern
Established Title:	Founded
Established Date:	1990
Unit Pref:	dunam
Population Density Km2:	auto

Kisra-Sumei (Arabic: كسرا-سميع; Hebrew: כִּסְרָא-סֻמֵיע) is a local council in the western Galilee in the Northern District of Israel. In it had a population of . In April 2019, 95% of the population were Israeli Arabs of the Druze community, with a small Christian minority.^{[1] [2]} The town has a Druze holy place as well as a statue to the Druze leader and Syrian nationalist revolutionary Sultan al-Atrash.

The town is the result of a merger between the villages of Kisra and Sumei and it was recognised as a local council in 1990.

History

Kafr Sumei is identified with the late ancient village of Caparasima (or Kefar Simay), mentioned in John Moschus' Spiritual Meadow, a Byzantine ascetic writing dating from the 7th century.^[3]

Climate

Kisra-Sumei has a mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: Csa). The average annual temperature is 17.7°C, and around 771mm of precipitation falls annually.

See also

• Arab localities in Israel
• Druze in Israel

Bibliography

• Book: Barron, J. B. . Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922 . Government of Palestine . 1923 .
• Book: Conder. Claude Reignier. Claude Reignier Conder. Kitchener. H. H.. Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener. 1881. The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. London. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. 1. (Kisra: 150, 185 Kafr Sumay': 148, 169 (=Guerin))
• Book: Dauphin, C. . Claudine Dauphin . La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations . III : Catalogue . BAR International Series 726 . 1998 . Archeopress . Oxford . fr . 0-860549-05-4 . (Dauphin pp. 637–8, 639)
• Rafael . Frankel . Topographical notes on the territory of Acre in the Crusader period . . 38 . 4 . 1988 . 249–272.
• Book: Guérin, Victor. Victor Guérin. Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. 3: Galilee, pt. 2. 1880. L'Imprimerie Nationale. Paris. fr. (Kesra: pp. 77-78; Kefr Semeia: p. 77)
• Book: Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Sami. Hadawi. Sami Hadawi. 1970. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
• Book: Hütteroth . Wolf-Dieter . Kamal . Abdulfattah . Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century . 1977 . Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft . 3-920405-41-2 . (p. 192)
• Book: Mills, E. . Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas . Government of Palestine . Jerusalem . 1932 .
• Book: Palmer, E. H.. Edward Henry Palmer. 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. (Kisra: “The fragment”; p. 51; Kefr Sumeia: “The village of Sumeiả”; p. 44)
• Book: Rhode, Harold . Harold Rhode . 1979 . Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century . . 2017-11-03 . 2016-10-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161010135324/http://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century . dead .
• Book: Röhricht, R.. Reinhold Röhricht. (RRH) Regesta regni Hierosolymitani (MXCVII-MCCXCI). 1893. Libraria Academica Wageriana. Berlin. la.
• Schumacher . G. . Gottlieb Schumacher . Population list of the Liwa of Akka . Quarterly Statement - Palestine Exploration Fund . 20 . 169–191 . 1888 . (p. 174, 191)
• Book: Strehlke, Ernst. Tabulae Ordinis Theutonici ex tabularii regii Berolinensis codice potissimum. 1869. Weidmanns. Berlin. (Strehlke, 1869, pp. 57-58, No. 73; cited in Röhricht, 1893, RRH p. 267, No. 1020; cited in Frankel, 1988, p. 255)

External links

• Welcome To Kafr Sumei
• Welcome To Kisra-Sumei
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 3: IAA, Wikimedia commons

Notes and References

1. http://www.cbs.gov.il/publications16/local_authorities14_1642/pdf/672_1296.pdf Kisra-Sumei 2014
2. Web site: The Druze population in Israel - a collection of data on the occasion of the Prophet Shuaib holiday. 2019-04-17. CBS - Israel. Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 2019-05-08.
3. Avi-Yonah . Michael . 1976 . Gazetteer of Roman Palestine . Qedem . 5 . 45 . 0333-5844.