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Araqah
Sign in to saveAraqah () is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate in the Northern area of the West Bank, located 15 kilometers West of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 2,667 inhabitants in 2017.
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Place details
- Locality
- العرقة
- Region
- West Bank
- Country
- الأراضي الفلسطينية
- Population
- 2,135
- Timezone
- Asia/Hebron
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Araqah
- Settlement.translit_lang1
- Arabic
- Settlement.translit_lang1_type
- Arabic
- Settlement.translit_lang1_info
- عرقه
- Settlement.translit_lang1_type1
- Latin
- Settlement.translit_lang1_info1
- al-Araqa (official)’Araqa (unofficial)
- Settlement.type
- Municipality type D (Village council)
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Araqa.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Araqah as seen from the Shahak Industrial Park
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Palestine
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Araqah within Palestine
- Settlement.grid_name
- Palestine grid
- Settlement.grid_position
- 169/208
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- State of Palestine
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Jenin
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Ottoman era
- British Mandate era
- Jordanian era
- Post-1967
- Demography
- Local origins
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Araqah () is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate in the Northern area of the West Bank, located 15 kilometers West of Jenin. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 2,667 inhabitants in 2017.
==History== Araqah was established in the 18th century, probably by the Abd el-Hadi family or under their auscipes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Araqah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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