Burqa, Ramallah
| Burqa | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | بُرقة |
Burqa´s mosque from the north
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| Coordinates: 31°53′45″N 35°15′15″E / 31.89583°N 35.25417°ECoordinates: 31°53′45″N 35°15′15″E / 31.89583°N 35.25417°E | |
| Palestine grid | 174/144 |
| Governorate | Ramallah & al-Bireh |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| Population (200) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 2,090 |
| Name meaning | "The speckled ground" |
Burqa (Arabic: بُرقة) is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 6 kilometers (3.7 mi) east of Ramallah in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of approximately 2,090 inhabitants in the 2007 census.
In 1596, Burqa appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Quds of the Liwa of Quds. It had a population of 28 Muslim households and paid taxes on wheat, barley, olives, fruit trees, goats and/or beehives.
American scholar Edward Robinson noted the village in 1838, "high up on the hill-side", while in 1863 French explorer Victor Guérin found it to contain about thirty houses. A Muslim shrine devoted to Sheikh Youseph was also noted.
An Ottoman village list from about 1870 showed that Burka had a population of 152, with a total of 31 houses, though the population count included men, only. In 1883, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described Burkah as "a good-sized village standing high on a bare hillside, with a spring in the valley to the south."
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Burqa had a population of 268, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census, to 320, still all Muslim, in 66 houses.
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