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Tarqumiyah
Sign in to saveTarqumiyah () is a city located 12 kilometers northwest of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, in the Hebron Governorate in the State of Palestine. The city had a population of 19,311 in 2017.
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- Locality
- ترقوميا
- Region
- West Bank
- Country
- الأراضي الفلسطينية
- Population
- 14,202
- Timezone
- Asia/Hebron
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tarqumiyah
- Settlement.translit_lang1
- Arabic
- Settlement.translit_lang1_type
- Arabic
- Settlement.translit_lang1_info
- ترقوميا
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Palestine
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Tarqumiyah within Israel
- Settlement.grid_name
- Palestine grid
- Settlement.grid_position
- 151/109
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Hebron
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.government_type
- City
- Settlement.unit_pref
- dunam
- Settlement.population_total
- 19311
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2017
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.blank_name_sec1
- Name meaning
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Mamluk period
- Ottoman era
- British Mandate era
- Jordanian era
- Post-1967
- Footnotes
- Bibliography
- External links
Tarqumiyah () is a city located 12 kilometers northwest of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, in the Hebron Governorate in the State of Palestine. The city had a population of 19,311 in 2017.
==History== Tarqumiyah is an ancient town situated on a rocky hill. Cisterns have been found here. According to the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP), this place is the early Christian Tricomias, an episcopal see.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tarqumiyah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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