Karma, Hebron

Karma
Municipality type D (Village council)
Arabic transcription(s)
•  Arabic	كرمة
Karma Location of Karma within Palestine
Coordinates: 31°27′03″N35°01′39″E / 31.45083°N 35.02750°E / 31.45083; 35.02750
State	Palestine
Governorate	Hebron
Government
• Type	Village council
Population  (2017) [1]
• Total	1,781
Name meaning	The ruin of the vineyard [2]

Karma (Arabic : كرمة) is a village located nineteen kilometers south-west of Hebron, Palestine. The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. The village had a population of 1,781 in 2017. ^[1]

History

In 1883 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found here "traces of ruins". ^[3]

According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,386 in 2007. ^[4] The primary health care facilities for the village are at Qila designated by the Ministry of Health as level 1. ^[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. 400
3. Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 359
4. Projected Mid -Year Population for Hebron Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Archived 2008-09-20 at the Wayback Machine Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
5. "West Bank Health care" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2006-03-13. Retrieved 2016-05-24.

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.
• 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
• Karma Village (Fact Sheet), Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem, (ARIJ)
• Karma Village profile, ARIJ
• Karma Village aerial photo, ARIJ
• The priorities and needs for development in Karma village based on the community and local authorities' assessment, ARIJ