Tarqumiyah
| Tarqumiyah | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Arabic | ترقوميا |
 Tarqumiyah
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| Coordinates: 31°34′30″N 35°00′47″E / 31.57500°N 35.01306°ECoordinates: 31°34′30″N 35°00′47″E / 31.57500°N 35.01306°E | |
| Palestine grid | 151/109 |
| Governorate | Hebron |
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| • Type | City |
| Population (2007) | |
| • Jurisdiction | 14,357 |
| Name meaning | Tricomia |
Tarqumiyah (Arabic: ترقوميا) is a Palestinian town located twelve kilometers northwest of Hebron. The town is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank.
Tarqumiyah is an ancient town situated on a rocky hill. Cisterns have been found here. According to the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP), this place is the early Christian Tricomias, an episcopal see.
Tarqumiya, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596 the village appeared to be in the Nahiya of Halil of the Liwa of Quds. It had a population of 17 families, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 33,33% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 6,500 Akçe.
In 1838 Edward Robinson passed by and noted that Tarqumiya was on the most common path from Gaza, via Bayt Jibrin to Hebron. While resting at Tarqumiya, he was visited by the local Sheikh and other dignitaries, who “demeaned themselves kindly and courteously."
In 1863 Victor Guérin found it to have 400 inhabitants, while an Ottoman village list from about 1870 counted 45 houses and a population of 108, though the population count included men, only.
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