'Aqqaba

Aqqaba () is a Palestinian town located on a slope in the Jordan Valley in the northern West Bank, 15 kilometers northeast of Jenin in the Tubas Governorate of the State of Palestine. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 8,239 inhabitants in the 2017 census.

Key facts

Settlement.name: 'Aqqaba
Settlement.translit_lang1: Arabic
Settlement.translit_lang1_type: Arabic
Settlement.translit_lang1_info: عقّابة
Settlement.translit_lang1_type1: Latin
Settlement.translit_lang1_info1: al-Aqaba (official)Akkaba (unofficial)
Settlement.type: Municipality type C
Settlement.pushpin_map: Palestine
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location of 'Aqqaba within Palestine
Settlement.grid_name: Palestine grid
Settlement.grid_position: 183/195
Settlement.subdivision_type: State
Settlement.subdivision_name: State of Palestine
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Governorate
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Tubas
Settlement.established_title: Founded
Settlement.government_type: Municipality
Settlement.unit_pref: dunam

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of: town
Country: Palestine
Located in: Tubas Governorate
Population: 6239
Area: 6500
Elevation: 750
Official website: www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/_Aqqaba_555/index.html
Image: MountBezeqAkabeRasElBad8123.JPG

Show 2 more facts

Commons category: 'Aqqaba
native label: عقّابة

Sources (2)

via Wikidata · CC0

~3 min read

Encyclopedic overview

8 sections

Contents

History
Ottoman era
British Mandate of Palestine
Jordanian era
Post 1967
References
Bibliography
External links

==History== Pottery remains from the Persian, Hellenistic and Byzantine eras have been found here.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “'Aqqaba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

On the map

2 mapped locations

Available in 9 languages

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0