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al-Karmil
Sign in to saveal-Karmil () is a Palestinian village located twelve kilometers south of Hebron. The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank, within Area A under total Palestinian control. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 9,740 in 2017. The primary health care facilities for the village are designated by the Ministry of Health as level 2.
Key facts
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- al-Karmil
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- Arabic
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- Arabic
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- خربة الكرمل
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- Latin
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- Khirbat al-Karmil (official)
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- Municipality type D (Village council)
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- Al-Karmil
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- Palestine
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- Location of al-Karmil within Palestine
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- Palestine grid
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- 162/092
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- State
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- State of Palestine
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- Governorate
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- Hebron
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- Founded
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Hebrew Bible: Carmel in Judah
- Late Roman and Byzantine periods
- Crusader/Ayyubid period
- 19th-century explorers
- Jordanian period
- 1967 and aftermath
- Demography and economy
- Footnotes
- Bibliography
- External links
al-Karmil () is a Palestinian village located twelve kilometers south of Hebron. The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank, within Area A under total Palestinian control. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 9,740 in 2017. The primary health care facilities for the village are designated by the Ministry of Health as level 2.
==History== German biblical archaeologist, A. E. Mader (German article), who surveyed Palestine in 1911–1914, saw the strategic importance of historical Carmel in the fact that it's situated at the point where the main road crossing the hill country from north to south is splitting here, one road continuing towards Beersheba, and the other leading east to the southern end of the Dead Sea. The Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) authors, Conder & Kitchener, managed to trace an ancient road from Jerusalem to "El Kŭrmŭl" in 1874.
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