'Aqqaba
Sign in to saveAqqaba () 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
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 6239
- Area
- 6500
- Elevation
- 750
- Official website
- www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/_Aqqaba_555/index.html
- Image
- MountBezeqAkabeRasElBad8123.JPG
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- 'Aqqaba
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- عقّابة
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- Ottoman era
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- Post 1967
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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.
==History== Pottery remains from the Persian, Hellenistic and Byzantine eras have been found here.
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