Shuqba
| Shuqba | |
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| • Arabic | شقبه |
Roadside view of Shuqba, 2012
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 Shuqba
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| Coordinates: 31°59′13″N 35°2′18″E / 31.98694°N 35.03833°ECoordinates: 31°59′13″N 35°2′18″E / 31.98694°N 35.03833°E | |
| Palestine grid | 153/154 |
| Governorate | Ramallah & al-Bireh |
| Government | |
| • Type | Village council |
| Area | |
| • Jurisdiction | 13,390 dunams (13.4 km2 or 5.2 sq mi) |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 4,500 |
| Name meaning | The crevasse, cleft, or narrow pass. |
Shuqba (Arabic: شقبة) is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 17.71 kilometers northwest of the city of Ramallah in Palestine. It is bounded on the southwest by the village of Qibya, on the southeast by Shabatin, on the northeast by Deir Abu Mish'al and on the north by the Israeli settlement of Ofarim.
Shuqba has a total area of 13,990 dunams, and the built-up area comprises 616 dunams. Shuqba was home to approximately 4,497 inhabitants in 2007.
Dorothy Garrod studied the transition of Mesolithic to Neolithic culture represented in a cave on the northern bank of Wadi an-Natuf near Shuqba in 1928. The name "Natufian Culture" was then coined to describe the inhabitants of the southern Levant at this crucial juncture in human history.
Sherds from Iron Age I-II, Iron Age II, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman Empire, Byzantine and Mamluk eras have been found.
Sherds from the early Ottoman era have been found here. In 1596 Shuqba was a part of the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Ramla, which was under the administration of the liwa ("district") of Gaza. In the tax records that year it had a population of 49 household who were all Muslims. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a press for olives or grape syrup; a total of 2,600 Akçe.
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