Budrus
| Budrus | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | بٌدرُس |
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| Coordinates: 31°57′59.66″N 34°59′37.08″E / 31.9665722°N 34.9936333°ECoordinates: 31°57′59.66″N 34°59′37.08″E / 31.9665722°N 34.9936333°E | |
| Palestine grid | 149/152 |
| Governorate | Ramallah & al-Bireh |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 1,399 |
| Name meaning | from Budrus, personal name |
Budrus (Arabic: بٌدرُس) is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 31 kilometers northwest of Ramallah in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 1,399 inhabitants in 2007.
"Budrus" is Arabic for "Peter" and in ancient times the village was known as Patris. The site of the modern town is just east of the 1949 armistice line, while the ancient town was probably 2 km away at Khirbet Budrus, on the west side of the line. It was mentioned in the Jewish Tosefta (Demai 1) as being included in the boundary of the southern mountains of Judea.
Archeological remains from the Hellenistic and the Byzantine eras have been found.
In 1596, Budrus appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Ramla of the Liwa of Gaza. It had a population of 46 Muslim households and paid taxes on wheat, barley, olives or summercrops, goats or beehives and a press for olives or grapes.
Budrus was described in the 1870s as "a small village, with olive-groves and cisterns. It has near it two sacred places, and a graveyard near one (Imam 'Aly) on the west."
In a census conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, Budrus had a population of 334; all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 430 Muslims in a total of 98 houses.
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