Khirbet Safa

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Khirbet Safa
Arabic transcription(s)
   Arabic خربة صافا
   Latin Safa (official)
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Khirbet Safa
Location of Khirbet Safa within Palestine
Coordinates: 31°38′32″N35°06′02″E / 31.64222°N 35.10056°E / 31.64222; 35.10056 Coordinates: 31°38′32″N35°06′02″E / 31.64222°N 35.10056°E / 31.64222; 35.10056
State State of Palestine
Governorate Hebron
Government
  Type Village council
Population
 (2006)
  Total1,105
Name meaning"clear", or "bright" [1]

Khirbet Safa (Arabic : خربة صافا) is a Palestinian village located twelve kilometers north-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 1,105 in mid-year 2006. [2]

Contents

History

In 1883 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described it as "a small village, with a well to the north, on the west slope just below the watershed." [3]

Footnotes

  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 407
  2. Projected Mid -Year Population for Hebron Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Archived 2008-09-20 at the Wayback Machine Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  3. Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p.309

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