Qalqilya Governorate Explained

Type:Governorate
Subdivision Type:Country
Population As Of:2017
Population Footnotes:[1]
Area Total Km2:164
Population Total:91,046
Population Note:This figure excludes the Israeli West Bank Settlements
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Image Map1:2018 OCHA OpT map Qalqilya.jpg
Map Caption1:2018 United Nations map of the area, showing the Israeli occupation arrangements in the governorate

The Qalqilya Governorate or Qalqiliya Governorate is an administrative area of Palestine in the northwestern West Bank.[2] Its capital or muhfaza (seat) is the city of Qalqilya that borders the Green Line.[3]

History

During the Ottoman period, the region later forming the Qalqiliya Governorate belonged to Jabal Nablus. Like other regionls of Nablus' peripheral hinterland, it followed the provincial center, led by a closely knit web of economic, social and political relations between Nablus’ urban notables and the city’s surroundings. With the help of rural trading partners, these urban notables established trading monopolies that transformed Jabal Nablus’ autarkic economy into an export-driven market, shipping vast quantities of cash crops and finished goods to off-shore markets. Increasing demand for these commodities in the Ottoman Empire’s urban centers and in Europe spurred demographic growth and settlement expansion in the lowlands surrounding Jabal Nablus.[4] [5]

Localities

Municipalities

Towns and villages

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Main Indicators by Type of Locality - Population, Housing and Establishments Census 2017 . 2021-01-19 . Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).
  2. Web site: 2018-07-06 . مركز المعلومات الوطني الفلسطيني . 2022-06-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180706190419/http://info.wafa.ps/aprint.aspx?id=4095 . 6 July 2018 . dead.
  3. Aburas . Hala . Shahrour . Isam . January 2021 . Impact of the Mobility Restrictions in the Palestinian Territory on the Population and the Environment . Sustainability . en . 13 . 23 . 13457 . 10.3390/su132313457 . 2071-1050. free .
  4. Marom . Roy . Roy Marom . 2024 . The Palestinian Rural Notables’ Class in Ascendency: The Hannun Family of Tulkarm (Palestine) . Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies . en . 23 . 1 . 77–108 . 10.3366/hlps.2024.0327 . 2054-1988. free .
  5. Book: Doumani, Beshara . Beshara Doumani . Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700–1900 . 1995 . 978-0-520-20370-9 . en.