Barta'a
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Barta'a בַּרְטַּעָה • برطعة |
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 Barta'a
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| Coordinates: 32°28′28″N 35°05′32″E / 32.47444°N 35.09222°ECoordinates: 32°28′28″N 35°05′32″E / 32.47444°N 35.09222°E | |
| Territory | Israel/Palestinian territories |
| District/Governorate | Haifa/Jenin |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4,320 dunams (4.3 km2 or 1.7 sq mi) |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Total | 8,300 |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+2) |
| • Summer (DST) | IDT (UTC+3) |
Barta'a (Arabic: برطعة, Hebrew: בַּרְטַּעָה) [meaning: "cutting") is a town in Israel and the Palestinian territories that straddles both sides of the Green Line and the Wadi Ara (or Nahal 'Iron) region.
Western Barta'a is in the Haifa District of Israel, and forms part of the Basma local council. Its 4,700 residents are Arab citizens of Israel.
Eastern Barta'a is in the Palestinian territories in the northern part of the Jenin Governorate of the West Bank in what was designated under the Oslo Accords Area C. It has 3,600 residents, of whom 30-40 percent carry Israeli identity cards and the rest of whom carry Palestinian identity cards.
In 1882, during Ottoman rule, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described it as "a ruined Arabic village on a high hill, with a spring in the valley to the north 400 feet below." The village of Barta'a was established in the middle of the 19th century by members of the Kabha tribe. According to oral traditions, the tribe moved in the middle of the 18th century from Beit Jibrin to Yabed. In the middle of the 19th century, some of the Kabhaites left Ya'bad in search of a living area and purchased the land of Barta'a, where they found a spring and grazing land. In time, Barta'a developed and was built around it by satellite villages, also belonging to the sons of Kahba: Umm al-Qutuf, 'Ein al-Sahala, Wadi' Ara and Tura al-Arabiya.
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