Tuqu'
Sign in to saveTuquʿ or Tequʿ () is a Palestinian town in the Bethlehem Governorate, located southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. The modern part of the town was built up in 1948 and lies adjacent to Khirbet Tuqu' (also known as the ancient site of Teqoa , or Crusader Thecoe), from which it takes its name. It is administered by the Tuqu' municipal council along with two other localities: Khirbet ad-Deir and Al-Halqum. As of 2019, the modern center of Tuqu' had a population of 8,767, Khirbet Tuqu' had a population of 131, Al -Halqum of 266, and Khirbet ad-Deir of 2,009.
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tuqu'
- Settlement.type
- Municipality type C
- Settlement.translit_lang1
- Arabic
- Settlement.translit_lang1_type
- Arabic
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:Tekoa - Fureidis, p. 425 in Thomson, 1859 cropped.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- A sketch of "Tekoa - Fureidis, Palestine"
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Palestine
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Teqoa within Palestine
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- State of Palestine
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Bethlehem
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- Palestine
- Located in
- Bethlehem Governorate
- Population
- +555
- Area
- +0.90
- Image
- Herodion IMG 0639.JPG
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Article
21 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Location
- Biblical references
- History
- Hellenistic and Roman periods
- Byzantine period
- Muslim conquest and Early Muslim period
- Crusader and Ayyubid period
- Ottoman period
- Jordanian period
- Post-1967
- Demographics
- Economy
- Government
- Archaeology of Khirbet Tuqu' (ancient Teqoa)
- {{anchor|Other archaeological sites and landmarks}}Other archaeological sites and landmarks
- Paleolithic caves in Wadi Khureitun
- References
- Notes
- Bibliography
- External links
Tuquʿ or Tequʿ () is a Palestinian town in the Bethlehem Governorate, located southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. The modern part of the town was built up in 1948 and lies adjacent to Khirbet Tuqu' (also known as the ancient site of Teqoa , or Crusader Thecoe), from which it takes its name. It is administered by the Tuqu' municipal council along with two other localities: Khirbet ad-Deir and Al-Halqum. As of 2019, the modern center of Tuqu' had a population of 8,767, Khirbet Tuqu' had a population of 131, Al -Halqum of 266, and Khirbet ad-Deir of 2,009.
The town and its villages are part of a wider village cluster - along with Za'atara, Beit Ta'mir, Hindaza, Nuaman, Ubeidiya, and al-Asakra - that the nomadic pastoralist Ta'amreh tribe of Palestinian Bedouins have lived in for at least hundreds of years. While Tuqu has a municipal jurisdiction of over 191,262 dunams, the built-up area is small, consisting of only 590 dunams, and 98.5% of the village's land was classified as Area C and 1.5% as Area B in the 1995 accords.