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Ash-Shuhada

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Also known as Ash Shuhadā'

Ash-Shuhada (, ''martyrs' triangle'') is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate of Palestine, located 5 km southwest of the city of Jenin, in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 1,738 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 2,299 by 2017.

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Place details

Locality
مخيم جنين
Region
West Bank
Country
الأراضي الفلسطينية
Population
1,727
Timezone
Asia/Hebron

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Instance of
village
Country
Palestine
Elevation
301
Time zone
UTC+03:00
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PCBS locality code
10300

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Ash-Shuhada (, ''martyrs' triangle'') is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate of Palestine, located 5 km southwest of the city of Jenin, in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 1,738 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 2,299 by 2017.

==History== Just east of the modern village (at grid 1758/2041), large amounts of pottery sherds have been found, all dating to the Middle Bronze Age IIB.

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

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