Aqqaba
| 'Aqqaba | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | عقّابة |
| • Also spelled | al-Aqaba (official) Akkaba (unofficial) |
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| Coordinates: 32°21′03″N 35°20′59″E / 32.35083°N 35.34972°ECoordinates: 32°21′03″N 35°20′59″E / 32.35083°N 35.34972°E | |
| Palestine grid | 183/195 |
| Governorate | Tubas |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 6,548 |
| Name meaning | the steep or mountain road |
'Aqqaba (Arabic: عقّابة) 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. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 6,598 inhabitants in the 2007 census.
Pottery remains from the Persian, Hellenistic and Byzantine eras have been found.
'Aqqaba, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village was located in the Nahiya of Jabal Sami of the Liwa of Nablus. The population was 22 households and 5 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on various agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and/or beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 5,982 akçe.
In 1870 Victor Guérin found the village to have 130 inhabitants, who had a mosque in the eastern part of the village.
In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described it as "a good sized village on the northern slope of Ras el Akra. It is surrounded with brushwood on the hills, but has arable land below."
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