Hadab_al-Fawwar

Hadab al-Fawwar

Hadab al-Fawwar

Village in West Bank, Palestine

Hadab al-Fawwar (Arabic: حدب الفوّار, lit. Sparkling Slope) is a Palestinian village located seven kilometers southwest of Hebron. The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 2,354 in 2017.[1] The primary health care facilities for the village are designated by the Ministry of Health as level 2.[3] It is adjacent to the Palestinian refugee camp of Fawwar.

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History

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[4]

Ottoman era

In 1883 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found here "Walls, a deep cistern, and a large tomb, sequently used as a stable."[5]

Footnotes

  1. [1]
    Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 (PDF). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) (Report). State of Palestine. February 2018. pp. 64–82. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
  2. [2]
    Palmer, 1881, p. 393
  3. [3]
    West Bank Health care
  4. [4]
    Dauphin, 1998, p. 962
  5. [5]
    Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 329

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