Qibya
| Qibya | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | قبية |
 Qibya
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| Coordinates: 31°58′39″N 35°00′35″E / 31.97750°N 35.00972°ECoordinates: 31°58′39″N 35°00′35″E / 31.97750°N 35.00972°E | |
| Palestine grid | 151/153 |
| Governorate | Ramallah & al-Bireh |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| • Head of Municipality | Fahmi Makhtub |
| Area | |
| • Jurisdiction | 16,485 dunams (16.5 km2 or 6.4 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 4,901 |
| Name meaning | Domed |
Qibya (Arabic: قبية) is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 30 kilometers (19 mi) northwest of Ramallah and exactly north of the large Israeli city of Modi'in. It is part of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, and according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of approximately 4,901 in 2007.
Potsherds from the Roman/Byzantine, Byzantine Empire, Mamluk and early Ottoman period have been found in the village.
Qibya, 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 Ramla of the Liwa of Gaza. It had an entirely Muslim population of 29 households and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, fruit trees, lintels, goats and/or beehives and a press for olives or grapes.
In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described the village (then named Kibbiah), as "a very small hamlet with olive-trees, on high ground".
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