Hadab al-Fawwar

Hadab al-Fawwar
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
•  Arabic	حدب الفوّار
Hadab al-Fawwar Location of Hadab al-Fawwar within Palestine
Coordinates: 31°28′36″N35°03′20″E / 31.47667°N 35.05556°E / 31.47667; 35.05556
Palestine grid	155/098
State	State of Palestine
Governorate	Hebron
Government
• Type	Village council
Population  (2017) [1]
• Total	2,354
Name meaning	The hummock [2]

Hadab al-Fawwar (Arabic : حدب الفوّار, lit. Sparkling Slope) is a Palestinian village located seven kilometers southwest 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 2,354 in 2017. ^[1] The primary health care facilities for the village are designated by the Ministry of Health as level 2. ^[3] It is adjacent to the Palestinian refugee camp of Fawwar.

History

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here. ^[4]

Ottoman era

In 1883 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found here "Walls, a deep cistern, and a large tomb, sequently used as a stable." ^[5]

Footnotes

1. Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report). State of Palestine. February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
2. Palmer, 1881, p. 393
3. West Bank Health care
4. Dauphin, 1998, p. 962
5. Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 329

Bibliography

• Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
• Dauphin, C. (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). Vol. III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. ISBN   0-860549-05-4.
• 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.

External links

• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 21: IAA, Wikimedia commons
• Hadab Al Fawwar Village (fact sheet), Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ)
• Hadab Al Fawwar Village profile, ARIJ
• Hadab Al Fawwar Village aerial photo, ARIJ
• The priorities and needs for development in Hadab al Fawwar village based on the community and local authorities' assessment, ARIJ