Qalqilya
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| • Arabic | قلقيلية | |
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| Coordinates: 32°11′25.36″N 34°58′06.63″E / 32.1903778°N 34.9685083°ECoordinates: 32°11′25.36″N 34°58′06.63″E / 32.1903778°N 34.9685083°E | ||
| Palestine grid | 146/177 | |
| Governorate | Qalqilya | |
| Government | ||
| • Type | City | |
| • Head of Municipality | Othman Dawoud | |
| Area | ||
| • Jurisdiction | 25,637 dunams (25.6 km2 or 9.9 sq mi) | |
| Population (2007) | ||
| • Jurisdiction | 41,739 | |
| Name meaning | "a type of pomegranate", or "gurgling of water" | |
| Website | www.qalqiliamun.ps | |
Qalqilya (Arabic: قلقيلية Qalqīlyaḧ); is a Palestinian city in the West Bank. Qalqilya serves as the administrative center of the Qalqilya Governorate. In the official 2007 census the city had a population of 41,739. Qalqilya is surrounded by the Israeli West Bank barrier with a narrow gap in the east controlled by the Israeli military and a tunnel to Hableh.
The vicinity of Qalqilya has been populated since prehistoric times, as attested to by the discovery of prehistoric flint tools.
In 1596, Qalqilya appeared in Ottoman tax registers (transliterated as Qalqili) as a village in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani Sa'b in the Liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 13 Muslim households and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summercrops, olives, and goats or beehives.
In 1882, Qalqilya was described as "A large somewhat straggling village, with cisterns to the north and a pool on the south-west. The houses are badly built." According to the Qalqilya Municipality, the modern city was founded in 1893 by residents of nearby Baqat al-Hatab. A municipal council to administer Qalqilya was established in 1909.
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Qalqilya had a population of 2,803 (2,794 Muslims and 9 Christians), increasing in the 1931 census to 3,867 (3,855 Muslims and 12 Christians), in a total of 796 houses.
In 1945 the population of Qalqilya was 5,850, all Arabs, who owned 27,915 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 3701 dunams were for citrus and bananas, 3,232 were plantations and irrigable land, 16,197 used for cereals, while 273 dunams were built-up (urban) land.
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